Charles Dickens was born on February 7, 1812, in Landport, Portsea, England.
He is editor of the Dickens Quarterly and author of a number of books on Dickens..
David Paroissien is Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts.
It also hastened his death at the age of fifty-eight, when he was characteristically engaged in a multitude of work.
In later years, the pressure of serial writing, editorial duties, lectures, and social commitments led to his separation from Catherine Hogarth after twenty-three years of marriage.
He worked as an attorney\'s clerk and newspaper reporter until his Sketches by Boz (1836) and The Pickwick Papers (1837) brought him the amazing and instant success that was to be his for the remainder of his life.
A turn of fortune in the shape of a legacy brought release from the nightmare of prison and slave factories and afforded Dickens the opportunity of two years\' formal schooling at Wellington House Academy.
The second of eight children of a family continually plagued by debt, the young Dickens came to know not only hunger and privation, but also the horror of the infamous debtors\' prison and the evils of child labor.
He died in Kent on June 9, 1870.
Charles Dickens was born on February 7, 1812, in Landport, Portsea, England
