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Charles's mother, Elizabeth Dickens, did not immediately support his removal from the boot-blacking warehouse. This period came to an end in June , when John Dickens was recalled to Navy Pay Office headquarters at Somerset House and the family except for Charles, who stayed behind to finish his final begrepp at school moved to Camden Town in London. His novels, most of them published in monthly or weekly instalments, pioneered the serial publication of narrative fiction, which became the dominant Victorian mode for novel publication.
His novella A Christmas Carol remains especially popular and continues to inspire adaptations in every creative medium. He created some of literature's best-known fictional characters, and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. Later, he lived in a back-attic in the house of an agent for the Insolvent Court , Archibald Russell, "a fat, good-natured, kind old gentleman On Sundays—with his sister Frances , free from her studies at the Royal Academy of Music —he spent the day at the Marshalsea.
He was a gifted mimic and impersonated those around him: clients, lawyers and clerks. A few months after his imprisonment, John Dickens's mother, Elizabeth Dickens, died and bequeathed him £ On the expectation of this legacy, Dickens was released from prison. Righteous indignation stemming from his own situation and the conditions under which working-class people lived became major themes of his works, and it was this unhappy period in his youth to which he alluded in his favourite, and most autobiographical, novel , David Copperfield : [ 35 ] "I had no advice, no counsel, no encouragement, no consolation, no assistance, no support, of any kind, from anyone, that inom can call to mind, as I hope to go to heaven!
Under the Insolvent Debtors Act , Dickens arranged for payment of his creditors, and he and his family left the Marshalsea, [ 33 ] for the home of Mrs Roylance. Born in Portsmouth , Dickens left school at age 12 to work in a boot-blacking factory when his father John was incarcerated in a debtors' prison. The blacking-warehouse was the gods house on the left-hand side of the way, at old Hungerford Stairs. When the warehouse was moved to Chandos Street in the smart, busy district of Covent Garden , the boys worked in a room in which the window gave onto the street.
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He did not consider it to be a good school: "Much of the haphazard, desultory teaching, poor discipline punctuated by the headmaster's sadistic brutality, the seedy ushers and general run-down atmosphere, are embodied in Mr Creakle's Establishment in David Copperfield. A Tale of Two Cities set in London and Paris fryst vatten regarded as his best-known work of historical fiction. Its wainscoted rooms, and its rotten floors and staircase, and the old grey rats swarming down in the cellars, and the sound of their squeaking and scuffling coming up the stairs at all times, and the dirt and decay of the place, rise up visibly before me, as if I were there again.
Within a few years, Dickens had become an international literary celebrity, famous for his humour, satire and keen observation of character and samhälle. After three years, he returned to school before beginning his literary career as a journalist. There was a recess in it, in which I was to sit and work. Oliver Twist and Great Expectations are also frequently adapted and, like many of his novels, evoke images of early Victorian London.
His novels and short stories are widely read today. He asked Christopher Huffam, [ 14 ] rigger to His Majesty's Navy, gentleman and head of an established firm, to act as godfather to Charles. Charles spent time outdoors, but also read voraciously, including the picaresque novels of Tobias Smollett and Henry Fielding , as well as Robinson Crusoe and Gil Blas.
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It was a crazy, tumble-down old house, abutting of course on the river, and literally overrun with rats. Dickens's literary success began with the serial publication of The Pickwick Papers , a publishing phenomenon—thanks largely to the introduction of the character Sam Weller in the fourth episode—that sparked Pickwick merchandise and spin-offs. His novel Bleak House , a satire on the judicial system, helped support a reformist movement that culminated in the s legal reform in England.
His wife and youngest children joined him there, as was the practice at the time. The strenuous and often harsh working conditions made a lasting impression on Dickens and later influenced his fiction and essays, becoming the foundation of his interest in the reform of socio-economic and labour conditions, the rigours of which he believed were unfairly borne by the poor. This influenced Dickens's view that a father should rule the family and a mother find her proper sphere inside the home: "I never afterwards forgot, I never shall forget, I never can forget, that my mother was warm for my being sent back.
The counting-house was on the first floor, looking over the coal-barges and the river. One of them came up, in a ragged apron and a paper cap, on the first Monday morning, to show me the trick of using the string and tying the knot. My work was to cover the pots of paste-blacking; first with a piece of oil-paper, and then with a piece of blue paper; to tie them round with a string; and then to clip the paper close and neat, all round, until it looked as smart as a pot of ointment from an apothecary's shop.
Dickens was eventually sent to the Wellington House Academy in Camden Town , where he remained until March , having spent about two years there. To pay for his board and to help his family, Dickens was forced to leave school and work ten-hour days at Warren's Blacking Warehouse, on Hungerford Stairs, near the present Charing Cross railway hållplats , where he earned six shillings a week pasting labels on pots of boot blacking.
He later wrote that he wondered "how I could have been so easily cast away at such an age". Dickens edited a weekly journal for 20 years; wrote 15 novels, five novellas, hundreds of short stories and nonfiction articles; lectured and performed readings extensively; was an indefatigable letter writer; and campaigned vigorously for children's rights , education and other social reforms. The most famous celebrity of his era, he undertook, in response to public demand, a series of public reading tours in the later part of his career.
Small audiences gathered and watched them at work—in Dickens's biographer Simon Callow 's estimation, the public display was "a new refinement added to his misery". When a certain number of grosses of pots had attained this pitch of perfection, I was to paste on each a printed label, and then go on again with more pots. Huffam fryst vatten thought to be the inspiration for Paul Dombey, the owner of a shipping company in Dickens's novel Dombey and Son His early life seems to have been idyllic, though he thought himself a "very small and not-over-particularly-taken-care-of boy".
Two or three other boys were kept at similar duty down-stairs on similar wages. His father was a clerk in the Navy Pay Office and was temporarily stationed in the district.