After receiving an inheritance, John Dickens was released and Charles was sent to the private Wellington House Academy in North London. He was an average student and left at 15 to work in a ...

Charles Dickens developed a ritualistic routine ... It can be seen reflected in some of his characters, claims a new biography. Dickens had a habit of rearranging furniture whenever he stayed ...

Charles is sent to work in a boot blacking factory.

Greg Jenner talks about Charles Dickens' tough upbringing. 1. The Dickens family crest was not the Dickens family crest Charles was born in 1812, but his family were not in any way posh.

This is the opening paragraph of Claire Tomalin’s biography of Charles Dickens, the novelist. The young man she is describing is Dickens, aged 37. 14 January 1840, London. An inquest is being ...

I rest my claims to the remembrance of my country upon my published works...". Dickens died at his house, Gad's Hill Place, near Rochester in Kent and it was presumed that he would be buried at ...

In this episode his father gets out of jail and Charles gets to go to school.