Early years

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Dickens#Early_years

• Charles Dickens was born on 7th February 1812 in Portsmouth. 

• Charles Dickens came from a poor family, but he was lucky enough to attend school.

• Unfortunately, after his father was jailed for having ‘bad debts’, Charles Dickens was forced to leave school and start work in a blacking factory (a boot polish factory). He worked there for three years. The conditions were very poor and Charles Dickens suffered from loneliness.

• Dickens started to write as a journalist. He contributed articles to journals called The Mirror of Parliament and The True Sun.