The serialisation of Oliver Twist began in 1837 while The Pickwick Papers was still running. In the same year he married the daughter of his friend George Hogarth, Catherine Hogarth. The Pickwick Papers, his first commercial success, was published in 1836. His career as a writer of fiction started in 1833 when his short stories and essays began to appear in periodicals.

When Dickens was twelve years old he was send to work in a shoe polish factory because his family had be taken to the debtors' prison.Fagin is named after a boy Dickens disliked at the factory. His father was a clerk in the navy pay office, who was well paid but often ended up in financial troubles. He is buried in Westminster Abbey.Ĭharles Dickens was born in Hampshire on February 7, 1812. Charles Dickens died on 9 June 1870, leaving his last novel, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, unfinished. Many other novels followed and The Old Curiosity Shop brought Dickens international fame and he became a celebrity in America as well as Britain.

Fagin is named after a boy Dickens disliked at the factory.

When Dickens was twelve years old he was send to work in a shoe polish factory because his family had been taken to the debtors' prison. Charles Dickens was born in Hampshire on February 7, 1812.

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