A Christmas Carol: The Life Of Charles Dickens

When one considers their future, it may to fully comprehend how it can unfold. Charles Dickens overcame his dark childhood, and let it inspire his insight behind most of his compositions. Fortunately he became a very influential and lucrative author, speaker and performer of his literature. His 40 works lead him to go on tours to the US, hold readings in public, and inspire England’s writers with his literature. Charles Dickens’ beginning as a poor child working to help his family influenced his compositions throughout his life as well as his readers.

The life of Charles’ Dickens started when he was born February 7th in Portsmouth, Hampshire of England(“Charles Dickens Biography”). His father John Dickens was a clerk of a Naval Pay office,

Once he had finished the Pickwick Papers he became a full-time novelist (“Dickens: A Brief Biography”). With his new job mindset, he left to visit the US the first half of 1842. On his way back from the US, he wrote American Notes for General Circulation which was despised in the states and not tolerated well the UK. With his likability as a novelist crashing, his fame then rose again with the writing his first Christmas story A Christmas Carol which is still popular to this day (“The Life of Charles”). That same year of 1845, his new theater company was born. By 1846, Pictures of Italy was put in the Daily News Editor, inspired by his trips to Italy (“Dickens: A Brief Biography”). Two major novels were started in the year of 1849, Dombey and Son and David Copperfield, these novels seemed to take on a more serious tone and comprehended more thought (“The Life of Charles”). Dickens then in 1850 became editor of Household Words and later on in 1859 he began to edit All Year Round, which he edited until his death. With his love of travel, in 1853 he toured Italy alongside a Augustus Egg and Wilkie Collins to read his works in public (“Dickens: A Brief Biography”). With that even more success struck him as his theatrical company performed The Frozen Deep for the Queen. During the time he was there he met a young actress named Ellen Ternan and fell in love with her (“Dickens: A Brief Biography”). In 1859, the All Year Round had the first issues of a Tale of Two Cities. Pursuing that, he began to write Great Expectations in 1862 to 1861