![]() Room and board were not free, and so Dickens dropped out of school and worked at a boot-blacking warehouse ten hours a day, all before he turned thirteen. That left Charles to board with a number of elderly, impoverished friends of the family. Two years later, John was sent to debtors' prison where he was accompanied by Elizabeth and some of their younger children, as was customary in the Victorian Era. However, in 1822, the Dickens family moved from a quiet suburb in Kent to the center of London where John endeavored to work off the massive debt he had accrued over the previous years. Until the age of ten, Dickens led an idyllic childhood, playing outside and devouring books in equal measure. Born in 1812 in Portsmouth, England, Dickens was the second child of Navy clerk John Dickens and his wife, Elizabeth Dickens. In addition to relating the author's life-story, Ackroyd contextualizes Dickens's legacy, placing great emphasis on Dickens's use of poetic language in novels and the much-loved dramatic readings of his own work. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Having previously published biographies of English authors, such as Oscar Wilde, Ackroyd pulls from virtually all the research publicly available to create a comprehensive retelling of the life of the popular and enduring nineteenth-century novelist Charles Dickens, whose most beloved works include Great Expectations, A Christmas Carol, David Copperfield, and A Tale of Two Cities. Dickens (1990) is a biography by English author Peter Ackroyd. ![]()
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