Homage to Dickens
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 it haunted sadly his memories for the rest of his life. When his father was released he sent him to school where he did well, though his insensitive mother still wanted him to continue working in the warehouse, and he began again to work at the age of fifteen in the office of a legal firm in Gray´s Inn. Dickens in his unceasing self-improvement taught himself shorthand and he started as a freelance reporter in the Courts of the Doctors´ Commons.
Dickens worked hard in defiance to the lack of education from his parents and he improved himself in better jobs and displayed his talent in literature. He worked for the Morning Chronicle in parliamentary debates in the House of Commons and published his first instalments called Sketches by Boz in the Monthly Magazine and the Evening Chronicle, the publishers Chapman and Hall commissioned him to publish in monthly instalments from 1836-37 The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Papers to accompany sporting plates by the artist Seymour, which became a great success when he was only twenty-five. The year his beloved sister-in-law, Mary died he published Oliver Twist, a poignant appeal to alleviate the hard conditions and cruelty suffered by defenceless poor and orphan children by the English institutions and society, it appeared in monthly instalments in Bentley´s Miscellany, a new periodical of which Dickens was the first editor. He followed his successful literary career with Nicholas Nickleby(1839), The Old Curiosity Shop(1841) and Barnaby Rudge(1841).
Dickens worked hard in defiance to the lack of education from his parents and he improved himself in better jobs and displayed his talent in literature. He worked for the Morning Chronicle in parliamentary debates in the House of Commons and published his first instalments called Sketches by Boz in the Monthly Magazine and the Evening Chronicle, the publishers Chapman and Hall commissioned him to publish in monthly instalments from 1836-37 The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Papers to accompany sporting plates by the artist Seymour, which became a great success when he was only twenty-five. The year his beloved sister-in-law, Mary died he published Oliver Twist, a poignant appeal to alleviate the hard conditions and cruelty suffered by defenceless poor and orphan children by the English institutions and society, it appeared in monthly instalments in Bentley´s Miscellany, a new periodical of which Dickens was the first editor. He followed his successful literary career with Nicholas Nickleby(1839), The Old Curiosity Shop(1841) and Barnaby Rudge(1841).
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