Author
Charles Dickens
1812 – 1870 · Portsmouth, Hampshire, England · English
English novelist, born in Portsmouth in 1812 and died in Kent in 1870. After his father was jailed for debt he worked as a boy in a factory, an experience that shaped his writing. He is best known for Oliver Twist, A Christmas Carol and Great Expectations, and for stories of poverty and injustice in Victorian London.
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“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.”
