The classic of English literature Charles Dickens has created many works that have been in love with several generations of readers from all over the world. But the path to a successful career was long and began in poverty.
Biography
In 1812, Charles John Huffham Dickens was born in England. He became the second child in the family, but after that six more children were born in the family. Parents could not support such a large family, and father, John, fell into terrible debt. He was put in a special prison for debtors, and his wife and children were considered debt slaves. An inheritance helped to cope with a difficult financial situation: John Dickens received a considerable fortune from his deceased grandmother, and was able to pay off all debts.
From childhood, Charles Dickens was forced to work, and even after his father was released from prison, his mother forced him to continue working at the factory, combining this with his studies at Wellington Academy. After graduating, he took a job as a clerk, where he worked for a year, after which he resigned and chose to work as a freelance reporter. Already in 1830, the talent of the young writer began to be noted and he was invited to the local newspaper.
Charles Dickens' first love was Maria Bidnell, a girl from a wealthy family. But the spoiled reputation of John Dickens did not allow the girl's parents to accept the debtor's son into the family, and the couple moved away from each other, and later completely broke up. In 1836, the novelist married Catherine Thomson Hogarth, who bore him ten children. But such a large family became a burden for the writer, and he left it. Further, his life was full of novels, but the longest and most famous of them was with eighteen-year-old Ellen Ternan, with whom Dickens began a relationship in 1857, and lasted 13 years, until the writer's death. Based on their novel in 2013, the film "Invisible Woman" was filmed.
The great writer died of a stroke in 1870. He was buried at Westminster Abbey. The novelist did not like any kind of monuments and forbade them to dedicate sculptures to him during his lifetime and even after his death. Despite this, these monuments exist in Russia, the USA, Australia and England.
Bibliography
The first works of the English novelist were published six years after the completion of his work as a clerk, and the first serious work ("The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club") was published a year later. The talent of the young writer was noted even by the Russian prose writer Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky. The bright and believable psychological portraits in his works, which were highly valued by critics, and are still appreciated to this day. The realistic style of the young Dickens' writing attracted more and more readers, and he began to receive good royalties.
In 1838, the writer published the novel "The Adventures of Oliver Twist" about the life of an orphan boy and his difficulties in life. In 1840, The Antiquities Shop was published, in a sense a humorous work about the girl Nell. Three years later, the "Christmas story" was published, where the vices of the social world and the people living in it were exposed. Since 1850, novels have become more serious, and now the world sees a book about David Copperfield. Bleak House of 1853, as well as A Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations (1859 and 1860), as well as all of the author's works, reflected the complexity of social relations and the injustice of the ruling order.
