Learn about the life and works of Charles Dickens , one of the greatest English novelists of the 19th century. Explore his early hardships, his literary career, his social criticism, and his lasting influence on fiction and society. A biography of Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870), English Victorian novelist. Dickens was born in Landport, Portsmouth, on February 7, 1812, and was the second of eight children. Dickens ’ stories tell us what life was like all those years ago and he is one of the most famous writers in the English language. Charles Dickens lived in the 1800s, the Victorian age. Charles Dickens ... Charles John Huffam Dickens (/ ˈdɪkɪnz / ⓘ; 7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English novelist, journalist, short story writer and social critic. He created some of literature's best-known fictional characters, and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. [1]
