Charles Dickens

Dickens experienced poverty as a child~

• Dicken's family was middle-class, but he knew what it was like to be poor. When Dickens was 12, his father was imprisoned for debt. The family was very poor, so Dickens had to work in a factory.
• Dickens experience of poverty made him critical of the way Victorian society treated its poorest people.

1812~ Dickens was born on 7th February in Portsmouth.

1824~ His father is arrested for debt and sent to prison. Dickens had to give his education up and work…