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- Herausgeber: The History Press
- Kategorie: Sachliteratur, Reportagen, Biografien
- Sprache: Englisch
Charles Dickens was in his own day the most popular novelist who had ever lived, a public figure adored like a present-day pop star. He still holds his place as one of the greatest English writers, an original genius whose novels are an essential link in the canon of English literature. He was also actively involved in the life of his time, campaigning for social and educational reform and sharply critical of contemporary society. This short biography provides an excellent introduction to Dickens, from his disturbed childhood with a traumatic period working in a blacking factory, his instant success as a young writer and his tumultuous acclaim in both England and America, the major novels of the 1850s and '60s and the establishment of Household Words, to the final years as a public performer of his own work.
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CHARLES
DICKENS
Series Editor C.S. Nicholls
Highly readable brief lives of those who have played a significant part in history, and whose contributions still influence con-temporary culture.
CHARLES
DICKENS
CATHERINE PETERS
First published 1998
This edition first published 2009
The History Press
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This ebook edition first published in 2012
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EPUB ISBN 978 0 7524 8709 0
MOBI ISBN 978 0 7524 8708 3
Original typesetting by The History Press
CONTENTS
Acknowledgement
Chronology
Family Tree
Introduction
1 Childhood and Youth, 1812–32
2 The Making of ‘Boz’, 1832–40
3 America and Italy, 1842–6
4 The Critic of Society, 1846–55
5 The End of the Marriage, 1855–9
6 Final Years, 1859–70
Notes
Bibliography
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
I am most grateful to the editor-in-chief, Graham Storey, and the Oxford University Press, for permission to quote extensively from the magnificent Pilgrim Edition of the Letters of Charles Dickens.
CHRONOLOGY
1812
7 February.
Born at 13 Mile End Terrace, Landport, Portsmouth
1817
Family move to Chatham, Kent
1822
Family move to London. Dickens not sent to school
1824
9 February.
Begins work in Warren’s blacking warehouse. Father imprisoned for debt
June.
Dickens sent to Wellington House Academy
1827
Leaves school, begins work as a solicitor’s clerk
1830
Meets and becomes engaged to Maria Beadnell
1831
Becomes parliamentary shorthand reporter
1834
Begins to publish ‘Sketches’, using the pseudonym ‘Boz’
1836
Sketches by Boz
. Marries Catherine Hogarth
1837
Pickwick Papers
. Birth of Charles Dickens jnr. Death of Catherine’s sister Mary
1838
Oliver Twist
. Birth of Mary (Mamie) Dickens
1839
Nicholas Nickleby
. Birth of Kate Dickens
1841
Old Curiosity Shop, Barnaby Rudge
. Birth of Walter Dickens
1842
Jan/June.
Visits America.
American Notes
. Georgina Hogarth joins the Dickens household
1843
A Christmas Carol
1844
Martin Chuzzlewit
. Birth of Francis Dickens
from July.
living in Italy
1845
The Cricket on the Hearth
. Directs and acts in
Every Man in his Humour
. Birth of Alfred Dickens
1846
Pictures from Italy, The Battle of Life
. Living in Lausanne and Paris
1847
Involvement with Urania Cottage. Birth of Sydney Dickens
1848
Dombey and Son
. Death of Dickens’s sister Fanny
1849
Birth of Henry Dickens
1850
David Copperfield. Household Words
begins publication. Birth of Dora Dickens
1851
Deaths of Dickens’s father and daughter Dora
1852
Birth of Edward (Plorn) Dickens
1853
Bleak House.
Gives first public reading, of
A Christmas Carol
1854
Hard Times
1855
Directs and acts in
The Lighthouse
, by Wilkie Collins. Living in Paris for some months
1856
Buys Gad’s Hill Place
1857
Little Dorrit
. Directs and acts in
The Frozen Deep
. Meets Nelly Ternan
1858
Separates from his wife. Begins professional readings from his works
1859
A Tale of Two Cities
.
All the Year Round
begins publication
1861
Great Expectations
1865
Our Mutual Friend
. Involved in Staplehurst railway accident, with Nelly Ternan
1867
November.
Begins reading tour of America, which ends in May 1868
1868
Farewell reading tour cut short when Dickens has a slight stroke
1870
March.
Last public reading,
A Christmas Carol
. Starts
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
9 June.
dies leaving
Drood
unfinished. Buried in Westminster Abbey
