Charles Dikens Biography

English ovelista and one of the writers more known universal Literature. In its extensive work, it combined with masters narration, humor, tragic feeling and irony with an acid social critic and an acute description of people and places, real as as much imaginary. It was born the 7 of February of 1812, in Portsmouth, and most of passed its childhood in London and Kent, places that appeared frequently in their works. It began to attend the school to the nine years of age, but their studies were interrupted when his father, a small good natured civil employee but carefree, was jailed, in 1824, not to pay their debts. The young person Charles was itself forced, then, to stay by itself, and entered to work in a dye factory. This disagreeable experience, that later it would describe, only slightly altered, in its novel David Copperfield (1850), it produced a sensation of humiliation and abandonment to him that accompanied to him during the rest of its life. Between 1824 and 1826 it attended the school again, although most of its education was self-taught. Between their favorite books were those of some of the great novelists of century XVIII, like Henry Fielding and Tobias Smollet, whose influence can be perceived with clarity in its own writings. In 1827 it found a a job like legal secretary and, after studying during a brief period of time the office, one became journalist in the Parliament, which accustomed to him to make precise descriptions of facts, quality that would apply to its narrative work later. In that time she knew Maria Beadnell, and one fell in love with her, but her family rejected it like pretendiente of the young person, by which, after four years of relations, they separated. By then, he already was working like reporter in a publication of his uncle, The Mirror of Parliament, and for the liberal newspaper The Morning Chronicle. In December of 1833, Dickens published, under the pseudonym of Voice, first of a series of brief and original descriptions of the daily life of London in The Monthly Magazine, a magazine that his friend published George Hogarth. After it, a publisher of the city ordered a volume to him of new notes in this style, that had to accompany to the illustrations by the famous artist George Cruikshank. The success of this book, titleholder The notes of Voice (1836), it allowed the novelist to marry with Catherine Hogarth in that same year, and it animated to him to prepare a similar collaboration, this time with the well-known artist Robert Seymour. When Seymour committed suicide, another artist, H. K. Browne, nicknamed Phiz, who would later make many of the illustrations of the last works of Dickens, occupied his place. The result of this collaboration was Posthumous papers of the Pickwick club (1836-1837), a work in a style very next to the one of cómics, whose success consolidated the fame of the novelist, and influenced remarkably in the publishing industry of its country, because his in format, the one of a publication monthly very little expensive, marked a line that followed other editorials. The fame that had produced him this peculiar project saw extended by the following novels that it was publishing. Man of enormous energy and talent, dedicated itself to other many activities. It published the weekly Household News (1850-1859) and All the Year Round (1859-1870), wrote two books of trips, American notes (1842) e Images of Italy (1846), it administered charitable associations and it fought because social reforms were carried out . In 1842, it distributed seminaries in the United States to favor in an international agreement on intellectual property and against the slavery.