Charles DickensThe authorAmerican NotesBarnaby RudgeBleak HouseDombey and SonGreat ExpectationsHard TimesMartin ChuzzlewitLittle DorritNicholas NicklebyThe Old Curiosity ShopOliver TwistOur Mutual FriendThe Pickwick PapersA Tale of Two CitiesBiographyCharles Dickens (1812-1870).—Novelist, born at Landport, near Portsmouth, where his father was a clerk in the Navy Pay-Office. The hardships and mortifications of his early life, his want of regular schooling, and his miserable time in the blacking factory, which form the basis of the early chapters of David Copperfield, are largely accounted for by the fact that his father was to a considerable extent the prototype of the immortal Mr. Micawber; but partly by his being a delicate and sensitive child, unusually susceptible to suffering both in
