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The Life of Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens was a nineteenth-century novelist who was and still
is very popular. He was born in Landport, a region of Portsmouth, on
Charles Dickens was the son of John Dickens and Elizabeth Barrow.
John Dickens was a minor government official who worked in the Navy Pay
Office. Through his work there, he m ....
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.... He offered Charles a
job there and he was paid six shillings a week which was reasonable at
that time. Soon, he was moved downstairs in the sweatshop-like room.
Charles had been working at the factory for less than two weeks when his
father was arrested for debt. He was sent to debtors prison where he did
work to pay off his debt. John paid for Charles' lodging, but Charles had
to pay for his food and everything else with the six shillings he earned
every week. The details of London and of prison life were imprinting
themselves into Dickens' ....
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