Charles Dickens

Date Of Birth

7 February 1812

Date Of Death

9 June 1870

Age

58

Cause Of Death

stroke

Wife

Catherine Dickens

Married Until

1836-1858

Birth Place

Landport, Portsmouth

Children

Francis Dickens, Kate Perugini, Alfred D'Orsay Tennyson Dickens, Henry Fielding Dickens, Edward Dickens, Charles Dickens JR., Mary Dickens, Sydney Smith Haldimand Dickens, Dora Annie Dickens & Walter Landor Dickens

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How Many Kids Did Charles Dickens Have?

10

What Is Charles Dickens Best Known For?

Charles Dickens is the writer of the famous " A Christmas Carol" story.

When Did "A Christmas Carol" release?

19 December 1843

Who Illustrated "A Christmas Carol"

John Leech

How Many Pages Is A Christmas Carol?

110 Pages

What Else Was Charles Dickens Famous For?

Oliver Twist, David Copperfield & Great Expectations

How Many Books Did Charles Dickens Write?

19

On 9th June 1865, while returning from Paris, Dickens was involved in the Staplehurt train crash. The trains first seven carriages fell off a Bridge and the passengers plunged to their deaths, Dickens was sitting in the only carriage that survived the crash. His carriage was still sitting on the bridge, luckily he survived along with a few others.

In his later life Dickens used his experience as material for his ghost story "The Signal Man" where the main character has a premonition of his own death in which he dies in a train crash.

A Christmas Carol, Famous Quotes

"I wear the chain I forged in life! I made it link by link and yard by yard! I gartered it on of my own free will and by my own free will, I wore it!"

"Though the clock pointed to his usual time of day for being there, he saw no likeness of himself among the multitudes that poured in through the Porch. It gave him little surprise, however; for he had been revolving in his mind a change of life, and thought and hoped he saw his new-born resolution carried out in this"

Originally Tiny Tim was meant to die but everyone in Charles Dickens life argued that Tiny should live as it's a Christmas book. Charles Dickens struggled to figure a way to show Tiny Tim being dead and having him alive once Scrooged had changed as a person.

Famous Quotes

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times"
 

"Please, sir, I want some more"
 

"Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts"