Charles John Huffam Dickens was born on February 7, 1812 at what was then 1 Mile End Terrace (now 393 Commercial Road), Landport in Portsmouth, Hampshire, to Elizabeth and John Dickens ...

Charles John Huffam Dickens was born in a modest four-story house, now the museum. Dickens’ father, John, was a likable spendthrift who worked for the Naval Pay Office; his mother, born ...

The Authors. (For a biographical sketch of Charles John Huffam Dickens, see TIME, Mar. 12.) Critics have cried blasphemy at Poet Robert von Ranke Graves before. His Goodbye To All That ...

After receiving an inheritance, John Dickens was released and Charles was sent to the private Wellington House Academy in North London. He was an average student and left at 15 to work in a ...

BORN in 1812 and dead in 1870, English novelist, journalist, short story writer and social critic Charles John Huffam Dickens created some of literature’s best-known fictional characters.

Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded as the ...