Charles Dickens was conceived on February 7, 1812, in Portsmouth, on the southern shore of England. His full original name was Charles John Huffam Dickens. Dickens had 7 other siblings and he was the second sibling born. His dad John Dickens was a naval clerk and his objective was to turn out to become very wealthy later on while Dickens’s mother Elizabeth Barrow wanted to become an instructor and school executive (A&E Networks Television, 29 Aug. 2019). Dickens had a happy family yet even with all the diligent work his folks put in, their family stayed poor. He and his family at that point moved to Chatham, Kent in 1816. Dickens and his siblings had adored investigating the field when they previously moved there (A&E Networks Television, 29 Aug. 2019). He and his family at that point moved again to a poor neighborhood
close to London called Camden Town. It was here that Dickens’s family turned out to be truly broke. This led to his father, John Dickens being sent to prison because of debt in 1824. This was hard on a 12-year-old boy when he was in school. Dickens was then withdrawn from school and sent to work in a blacking warehouse run by a family member. He then returned to school when his father became more financially stable. It was at the age of 15, that he became a parliamentary reporter and had to drop out of school again to pursue his writing career (A&E Networks Television, 29 Aug. 2019). By 1836, Dickens had published his first book titled Sketches by Boz along with another one of his publications The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. (A&E Networks Television, 29 Aug. 2019) He also became the editor of many magazines.