About this Author
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Charles Dickens
- Bio: Charles Dickens was born on February 7, 1812. He thought of himself as a "very small and not-over-particularly-taken-care-of boy." He spent a lot of time outdoors but was also very eager to read especially novels by Tobias Smollet and Henry Fielding. When his family was moving to Marshalsea, Charles Dickens stayed at the house of a family friend. To pay for his stay and to help his family, Charles Dickens started working at Warring's Blacking Warehouse where he would paste labels on jars of shoe polish. His experiences in the factory developed his interest in reforming socioeconomic and working conditions, thus, much of his writing centered around the theme of social reform.
