Real Name: Charles John Huffam Dickens D.O.B: 7 February 1812

1. Charles Dickens Real Name: Charles John Huffam Dickens D.O.B: 7 February 1812 Landport, Portsmouth, Hampshire, England Death: 9 June 1870 (aged 58)Gad's Hill Place, Higham,Kent, England

2. Early Years Charles Dickens was the 2nd of 8 children to John Dickens (1785–1851) and Elizabeth Dickens (1789–1863.) After his birth his family moved to Norfolk Street, Bloomsbury. http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/primaryhistory/famouspeople/charles_dickens/

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6. Middle Years In late November, 1851, Dickens moved into TavistockHouse, where he wrote Bleak House (1852–53), Hard Times (1854) and Little Dorrit (1856). During this period he worked closely with anovelist and a playwright, Wilkie Collins. In 1857, Dickens hired a professional actresses for the play, The Frozen Deep, which he and his protégé, Wilkie Collins had written.

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8. Last Years 9thJune 1865: While returning from Paris with Ellen Ternan, Dickens was involved in a rail crash. The first seven carriages of the train plunged off a cast ironbridgethat was under repair. The only first class carriage to remain on the track was the one in which Dickens was travelling in.

9. Death 8th June 1870: Dickens suffered another stroke at his home after a full day's work at Edwin Drood. He never regained consciousness, and the next day, 9th June, he died at Gad's Hill Place. Last Words: “On the ground”  in response to his sister-in-law Georgina's request that he must lie down.

10. Job He worked in a shoe polish factory and was a freelance reporter. But his favourite one is his paying job, (an author.)

11. Time Britain in 1800 had changed little in centuries. It was a rural country. For most of the people, the world was restricted to their village - where their family had probably lived for generations. But all that was about to change though the steam engine was first invented in 1769 by James Watt.