![]() ![]() Dickens wrote with unequaled speed and often worked on several novels at a time, publishing them first in monthly installments and then as books. It was the publication of Pickwick Papers (1836-1837) that catapulted the twenty-five-year-old author to national renown. When he was in his early twenties, Dickens began to publish stories and sketches of London life in a variety of periodicals. The young man then became a solicitor's clerk, mastered shorthand, and before long was employed as a Parliamentary reporter. Once they were released, Charles attended a private school for three years. In 1824, young Charles was withdrawn from school and forced to work at a boot-blacking factory when his improvident father, accompanied by his mother and siblings, was sentenced to three months in a debtor's prison. Despite difficult early years, he became the most successful British writer of the Victorian age. Born on February 7, 1812, Charles Dickens was the second of eight children in a family burdened with financial troubles. ![]()
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