Almost years ago, Charles Dickens wrote a story about a little boy who had nothing. The boy was called Oliver Twist. He had no parents and he lived in a place called a workhouse. Only poor people lived in workhouses. It was a hard life.
Dickens’ stories tell us what life was like all those years ago and he is one of the most famous writers in the English language.
Charles Dickens lived in the s, the Victorian age.
Life could be hard for children then. Many had to go out to work.
At 12, Dickens himself left school to work in a factory putting labels on pots. His dad had been sent to prison for not paying his bills, so the young Dickens worked to look after his family.
He eventually returned to school but never forgot how hard life was for poor people.
When he grew up, Dickens became a journalist and wrote for newspapers.
He also wrote stories from his own imagination, called novels.
His novels, like Oliver Twist, were often about the lives of poor people, their crowded houses and tough jobs.
Another story he wrote was ‘A Christmas Carol’, in which a miserable character called Ebenezer Scrooge hates Christmas. In the story, Scrooge meets three ghosts who teach him how to
Dickens on the BBC: Radio
Book Of The Week - Charles Dickens: A Life 1/5
Monday 28 November &#x; Friday 2nd December , am, BBC Radio 4
Claire Tomalin's acclaimed new biography of Britain's great novelist paints a portrait of an extraordinarily complex man. Abridged by Richard Hamilton and read by Penelope Wilton.
The week begins with Dickens&#x; troubled childhood; through to his early successes as a writer; being well received in America; a theatrical performance which changed the course of his life; and concluding with themes of adulation and farewells.
Claire Tomalin was literary editor of The New Statesman and The Sunday Times before becoming a full-time writer. Her award-winning biographies include: The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft and Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self.
Reader/Penelope Wilton, Producer/Elizabeth Allard
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A Tale Of Two Cities 1/5
Monday 26th &#x; Friday 30th December , pm, BBC Radio 4
Robert Lindsay and Alison Steadman star in a new dramatisation of Charles Dickens's classic, A Tale of Two Cities, dramatised by Mike Walker to be broadcast on Radio 4 as a sequence of five Afternoon Plays in the week after Christmas.
Non-fiction text types – WJECBiography
A biography is writing about someone’s life. If someone is writing about their own life it becomes an autobiography. These forms can also widen out to focus on a specific part of someone’s life, or their family.
A biography is usually written both to inform and to entertain. This means it is a mix of factual information and creative writing. The audience is usually made up of people who are interested in the person being written about. However, sometimes biographies of people who aren’t well known can be interesting because of an experience that they’ve had.
This is the opening paragraph of Claire Tomalin’s biography of Charles Dickens, the novelist. The young man she is describing is Dickens, aged
14 January , London. An inquest is being held at Marylebone Workhouse, a muddled complex of buildings spread over a large area between the Marylebone Road and Paddington Street. The Beadle, a parish officer responsible for persuading householders to do their duty as jurors at such inquests, has assembled twelve men. Most of them are middle-aged local tradesmen, but one stands out among them as different. He is young and sligh
Charles Dickens
How did Dickens' own life experiences influence his work? Why is the Marshalsea prison the focal point of Little Dorrit?
Dickens is a name synonymous with the cold, winding, dark streets of Victorian England; colourful and eccentric characters with inventive names such as Wackford Squeers, Uriah Heep and Ebenezer Scrooge; and the struggle of the poor against the class system. He wrote unashamed and vivid accounts of slums and prostitutes as well as damning portrayals of the legal system and government offices. His popularity has barely waned since his death and there have been over adaptations of his work for film and television.
The second of eight children, Charles John Huffam Dickens was born in February to John Dickens, a clerk for the Royal Navy, and his wife Elizabeth. Aged 12, Dickens was sent to work at a boot-blacking factory when his father was imprisoned in Marshalsea debtors prison. His father owed £40 - the same amount as Edward, Amy Dorrit's brother. Dickens' mother went to live with her husband inside the jail, taking their youngest children with her. She left Dickens and possibly the eldest sister, Fanny (the name of Amy Dorrit's sist
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