Charles Dickens

FIRST SUCCESS

He almost bacame a professional actor

In 1833 he wrote a short, funny story about a London family. The story was in a magazine!

Dickens began to write more and more stories for the magazine

A publisher decided to put the stories into a book called Sketches by boz (Charles´s pseudonym)

Charles wrote more novels: Pickwick papers and Oliver Twist

THE SCHOOL OF LIFE

EXPERIENCES

Charles Dickens experienced several experiences in his childhood and adolescence that served him years later to form his novels

- When Dickens walked with his father and he told him that if he worked hard he could have a house like the house Gad's Hill Place.
- When Charles and his family moved to Chathman, a busy town on the coast.
- The stories from her nurse, Mary Weller.
- His parents took him to the theatre.

- Father´s problem money
- Family moved to a smaller house
- Family took Charles out of school
- Charles is sent to work in a company when he had only twelft
- His father was sent to prison for not pay their debts