Charles Dickens was an English novelist and one of the most popular writers in the history of literature. In his enormous body of works, Dickens combined masterly storytelling, humor, pathos, and irony with sharp social criticism and acute observation of people and places, both real and imagined. (Encarta, 1998) Charles Dickens was born on Friday, February 7, 1812 at No. 1 Mile End Terrace, Landport, Portsmouth. His father, John Dickens, was a clerk in the Navy Pay Office. In 1814 …showed first 75 words of 1250 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1250 total…Chuzzlewit published 1845 - Dickens writes Cricket on the Hearth 1848 - Dombey and Son published 1850 - David Copperfield published 1853 - Bleak House published 1854 - Hard Times published 1857 - Little Dorrit published 1858 - Dickens and Catherine are legally separated 1859 - A Tale of Two Cities published 1861 - Great Expectations published 1865 - Our Mutual Friend published 1867 - Dickens second American visit 1869 - Dickens begins writing Edwin Drood (never completed) 1870 - Dickens dies, buried in Poet's Corner, Westminster Abbey