Basic facts about the author chronological biography of the author the complete works of the author

Contents

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  BASIC FACTS ABOUT THE AUTHOR
  
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  CHRONOLOGICAL BIOGRAPHY OF THE AUTHOR
  
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  THE COMPLETE WORKS OF THE AUTHOR
  
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  KEY FACTS OF THE WORK
  
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  USED LITERATURE
  
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  APPENDIX
  

ENTRY 1. BASIC FACTS ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Full name	Charles John Huffam Dickens
Pen name	Boz
Born	February 7, 1812 Portsmouth, England
Died	June 9, 1870 (aged 58) Chatham, England
Nationality	English
Education	Giles Academy in Chatham (1821) Wellington House Academy in London (1824)
Occupation	Writer
Genre(s)	Novels, short stories, comics, and novellas
Notable work(s)	‘’A Christmas Carol’’, ‘’A Tale of Two Cities’’, ‘’All the Year Round’’, ‘’American Notes’’, ‘’Barnaby Rudge’’, Bleak House’’, ‘’David Copperfield’’, ‘’Dombey and Son’’, ‘’Great Expectations’’, ‘’Hard Times’’, ‘’Little Dorrit’’, ‘’Martin Chuzzlewit’’, ‘’Nicholas Nickleby’’, ‘’Oliver Twist’’, ‘’Our Mutual Friend’’, ‘’Sketches by ‘Boz’ ‘’, ‘’The Cricket on the Hearth’’, ‘’The Mystery of Edwin Drood’’, ‘’The Old Curiosity Shop’’, ‘’The Pickwick Papers’’
Award(s), Prize(s)	He didn’t win any awards during his lifetime
Quotation(s)	*No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another. *We need never be ashamed of our tears. *What greater gift than the love of a cat.
Uzbek (and Russian) contemporaries	Herzen Alexander Ivanovich (1812-1870)
Family of the author
Marriage	Catherine Dickens (1815-1879) 22 years of marriage (1836-1858)
Children	Charles Culliford Boz Dickens (1837-1896) Mary Dickens (1838-1896) Kate Macready Dickens (1839-1929) Walter Landor Dickens (1841-1863) Francis Jeffrey Dickens (1844-1886) Alfred D’Orsay Tennyson Dickens (1845-1912) Sydney Smith Haldimand Dickens (1847-1872) Henry Fielding Dickens (1849-1933) Dora Annie Dickens (1850-1851) Edward Bulwer Lytton Dickens (1852-1902)