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1) How did Charles Dickens become a writer?

2) What events and beliefs influenced Charles Dickens' writing?

2006-12-17 11:13:12 · 2 answers · asked by doublecap123 1 in Education & Reference Homework Help

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Charles John Huffam Dickens FRSA (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870), pen-name "Boz", was an English novelist. During his career Dickens achieved massive worldwide popularity, winning acclaim for his rich storytelling and memorable characters. Considered one of the English language's greatest writers, he was the foremost novelist of the Victorian era as well as a vigorous social campaigner. He was a reformist writer (a writer who wrote about the bad things in order to change society for the better).

Later critics, beginning with George Gissing and G. K. Chesterton, championed his mastery of prose, his endless invention of memorable characters and his powerful social sensibilities. Yet he also received criticism from his more rarefied readers, including George Henry Lewes, Henry James, and Virginia Woolf, who list faults such as sentimentality, unrealistic events and grotesque characters.[1] The criticisms of these high brows show the degree of resentment which Dickens's popularity and closeness to the British public caused among the literary elite.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Dickens
The popularity of his novels and short stories during his lifetime and to the present is demonstrated by the fact that none have ever gone out of print. Dickens wrote serialised novels, which was the usual format for fiction at the time, and each new part of his stories would be eagerly anticipated by the reading public. He is regarded by many as the greatest writer of his time.

2006-12-17 11:16:26 · answer #1 · answered by Linda 7 · 0 0

Charles Dickens is the finest author within the historical past of without end!! I could say learn they all given that they're all so well. David Copperfield was once Dickens so much biographical novel. I adored Great Expectations on the whole probably the most. Oliver Twist is quite well too!

2016-09-03 13:11:20 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

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