A brief biography of Charles Dickens

By Kostas and Iris

Full name:Charles John Huffman Dickens (early alias:Boz)Born on 7th of February 1812Place of birth:Portsmouth EnglandParents:John Dickens,Elizabeth DickensSiblings:Alfred Allen Dickens,Frances Elizabeth Dickens, Leticia Mary Dickens,Harriet Dickens, Frederick Dickens,Alfred Lamert Dickens and Augustus Dickens.Marriage:Catherine (Hogarth) Dickens. Married:April 2,1836 ,Separated in 1858.

Children:Charles Culliford (Charley) Dickens Mary (Mamie) Dickens Kate Macready (Katie) Dickens Walter Savage Landor Dickens Francis Jeffrey (Frank) Dickens Alfred D'Orsay Tennyson Dickens Sydney Smith Haldimand Dickens Henry Fielding (Harry) Dickens Dora Annie Dickens Edward Bulwer Lytton (Plorn) Dickens

Date of Death:Thursday,June 9,1870(stroke)Place of Burial:Poet's Corner,Westminster Abbey,LondonEducation:Approximately one year at William Giles' School in Chat ham(age 9-11) nearly three years Wellington House Academy in London(age 13-15) beyond this,largely self-educated.First published story:A dinner at Poplar Walk published in Monthly Magazine(December 1833)

He wrote lots of Christmas books, weekly magazines and other major and minor works.