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Charles Dickens (full name: Charles John Huffam Dickens) is unquestionably one of the world�s most loved story tellers of all time and is often credited as being the greatest novelist of the Victorian era.

Charles Dickens was born on 7^th February 1812 in Portsmouth and left school early to work in a factory after his father was sent to a debtor�s prison. Dickens wrote extensively for a number of weekly or monthly journals with many of his novels being first published in serialised form. New readers of Dickens� books have often noticed that chapters finish on a �cliff edge� in anticipation of the next chapter which when first published would have formed the next episode. This approach to writing in part led to Dickens� unprecedented fame during his own lifetime.

In total Charles Dickens authored 15 novels in addition to hundreds of short stories and an extensive collection of non-fictional articles and open letters. In addition to his writing Charles Dickens was known for being a public advocate for children�s rights, social reform and welfare.

Charles Dickens died aged 58 on 9^th June 1870.

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