Charles Dickens


Charles Dickens is considered to be one of the greatest English novelists of the Victorian period.

He was born in Landport, Hampshire on February 7, 1812 during the time of the Napoleonic Wars.

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Dickens's works are characterized by attacks on social evils, injustice, and hypocrisy. He had also experienced in his youth oppression, when he was forced to end school in early teens and work in a factory.
Dickens's lively good, bad and comic characters, such as the cruel miser Scrooge, the aspiring novelist David Copperfield, or the trusting and innocent Mr. Pickwick, have fascinated generations of readers.
Dickens' writing style is florid and poetic, with a strong comic touch.
His satires of British aristocratic snobbery (he calls one character the "Noble Refrigerator") are often popular.


Dickens applied his unique power of observation to the city in which he spent most of his life.
He routinely walked the London streets, 10 or 20 miles at a time, and his descriptions of nineteenth century London allow readers to experience the sights, sounds, and smells of the old city.

This ability to immerse the reader into time and place sets the perfect stage for Dickens to weave his fiction.


Dickens's novels first appeared in monthly instalments, including OLIVER TWIST (1837-39), which depicts the London underworld and hard years of the foundling Oliver Twist, NICHOLAS NICKELBY (1838-39), a tale of young Nickleby's struggles to seek his fortune, and OLD CURIOSITY SHOP (1840-41).

Among his later works are DAVID COPPERFIELD (1849-50), where Dickens used his own personal experiences of work in a factory, BLEAK HOUSE (1852-53), A TALE OF TWO CITIES (1859), set in the years of the French Revolution.
GREAT EXPECTATIONS (1860-61), the story of Pip (Philip Pirrip), was among Tolstoy's and Dostoyevsky's favorite novels.

The unfinished mystery novel THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD was published in 1870.


The only surviving London home of Dickens (from 1837 until 1839) was opened as a Museum in 1925 and is still welcoming visitors from all over the world in an authentic and inspiring surrounding.
It is the world's most important collection of material relating to the great Victorian novelist and social commentator.

On four floors, you can see paintings, rare editions, manuscripts, original furniture and many items relating to the life of one of the most popular and beloved personalities of the Victorian age.