Life, Feelings and Opinions of an Andalusian lady

Charles Dickens and his wife visited America in 1842 where he was received enthusiastically which pleased him at the beginning to disappointed him later and caused much offence in America the publication of American Notes (1842) and Martin Chuzzlewit (1844) as he portrayed American stereotypes and advocated for the abolition of slavery and international copyright. In England the demands of his public and his own growing family he published a collection of Christmas books by which A Christmas Carol (1843) to awaken the humankind towards goodness and solidarity is a must for Christmas times and to be extended through the rest of the year and he published them as a sort of “whimsical sort of masque intended to awaken loving and forebearing thoughts”. Next year he visited Italy and produced Pictures of Italy to the Daily News a new radical newspaper founded by himself in 1846. He also visited Switzerland where he started Dombey and Son (1848), next year he began the weekly periodical...

One of my favourite authors provided me with a noteworthy mark recently in a competitive examinations in Huelva, therefore my gratitude will pay homage to this noteworthy and honest writer who raised himself from poverty and always advocated to humanize the hypocritical society of his time in favour of the destitute and helpless people. Charles John Huffman Dickens was born in Landport (Portsmouth) on 7th February 1812. The eighth son of a clerk of the Navy Pay Office, he spent his happiest childhood in Chatham (Kent), though soon he lived a period of intense misery owing to his father debts, the family joined the father´s imprisonment in Marshalsea Debtors´ Prison and Dickens, a boy of twelve had to work in a blacking warehouse labelling bottles for six chillings a week to support his family. This sad period in his childhood is often reflected in his many stories dealing with working children ( David Copperfield, Oliver Twist ,etc) which he denounced as an abuse towards children, and ...