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Charles Dickens, the name itself conjures

His father was a clerk in the navy pay office. In Dickens moved to London, and then to Chatham, where he received some education. He was the second in a family of six children. After his father was imprisoned at the Marshalsea, London, for non-payment of debts, in , Charles took a job in a blacking factory. From to he was a law office clerk, and then worked as a shorthand reporter at Doctor's Commons.

Dickens's relationship with Maria Beadnell, the daughter of a banker, lasted for four years. Afterwards, he married the daughter of his friend George Hogarth, Catherine Hogart in When Catherine's sisters, Georgiana, moved in with the Dickenses, he fell in love with her. Even though, Dickens had 10 children with Catherine, they were separated in Additionally, Dickens also had a long-lasting relation with the actress Ellen Ternan, whom he had met by the late s.

From the s Dickens spent much time traveling and campaigning against many of the social evils of his time. In addition he gave talks and reading, wrote pamphlets, plays, and letters. In to he lived in Italy, Switzerland and Paris. From to , he gave lecturing tours in Britain and the United States. Afterwards, he moved to Gadshill Place, near Rochester, Kent.