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Category:	Romantic Literature
Name:	Charles Dickens
Birth Year:	1812
Death Year:	1870
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Biography, Lectures, and Research Links:	Biography Blog Charles Dickens! SEARCH NOW: by title by author Find your favorite art: barewalls.com Born on February 7, 1812, the son of John and Elizabeth Dickens. His father was a clerk in the Naval Pay Office. In 1824 his father was imprisoned for debt. His wife and children joined him in the Marshalsea Prison. Charles was put to work at Warren's Blacking Factory. The brief period at the Blacking Factory haunted him all of his life and emerged in the themes of alienation and betrayal in David Copperfield and in Great Expectations. In 1850, Dickens started a weekly journal entitled Household Words to which he contributed the serialized works of Child's History of England (1851-53), Hard Times (1854), A Tale of Two Cities (1859), and Great Expectations (1860-61). At the same time, Dickens worked on his greatest novels, including David Copperfield (1849-50), Bleak House (1852-53), Little Dorrit (1855-57), and Our Mutual Friend (1864-65). As his career progressed, Dickens became more and more disenchanted. His works had always reflected the pains of the common man, but works such as Bleak House and Our Mutual Friend expressed his progressing anger and disillusionment with society. [Adapted from Spectrum] The Great Books: Charles Dickens Please browse our Amazon list of titles about Charles Dickens. For rare and hard to find works we recommend our Alibris list of titles about Charles Dickens. Offer Comments, Questions or Suggestions! This database is maintained by Malaspina Great Books.
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This web page is part of a biographical database on Great Ideas. These are living ideas that have shaped, defined and directed world culture for over 2,500 years. By definition the Great Ideas are radical. As such they are sometimes misread, or distorted by popular simplifications. Understanding a Great Idea demands personal engagement. Our selection of Great Ideas is drawn from literature and philosophy, science, art, music, theatre, and cinema. We also include biographies of pivotal historical and religious figures, as well as contributions from women and other historically under-represented minorities. The result is an integrated multi-cultural and multi-disciplinary database built upon the framework of the always controversial Great Books Core List published in 1940 by the late Great Books Pioneer Mortimer Adler (1902-2001). Most of the works on that list are available in the 60 volume Great Books of the Western World.