Charles Dickens was a Victorian era’s writer who not only reflected it in his writings and raised issues that troubled a British society and tried to solve them. His active literary and social activities contributed great changes as elimination of debtors’ prisons, reforms in education and justice, increased number of charities and revival patronage. His love for poor and downtrodden people was true, not false, they were as full members of society for him as wealthy, he gave them all the strength of his talent and all his love to them. He opened a poetry of their everyday life and become a symbol of English prose.
Charles Dickens was born at February 7, 1812 in a family of John Dickens, a clerk in the Navy Pay Office. Initially, Charles parents lived relatively well, but soon there are problems began to appear. The cause of troubles was that writer’s father too lightly treated to a family well-being, very fond of a theater and wine, often borrowed a money without being able to return soon. He also neglected son’s raising who is forever remembered it. Charles was also lacked of mother affection and attention. A mother just had no time for him and for trying to understand all her children (Charles was a second of eight children to HYPERLINK "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dickens" \o "John Dickens" John and Elizabeth Dickens).
So, books and life actually were his most important teachers. Charles received a primary education in Chatham school, that was run by William Giles, a graduate of Oxford. He instilled a love to English literature and reading in general to a boy.
Idyll of youth does not last long. The father tangled up in debts and the family went to London. The situation was getting worse. When the father of Charles was to debtors’ prison in Marshalsea, the family moved to him (it was allowed by English law). Charles arranged to a factory to help a trouble. Six months in a dirty old premise were too impressionable for a boy and perhaps a most frightening: monotonous work lasted from morning till evening. It was a moral injury also to Charles who wanted to learn.
A guy had one more passion at this time. It is a London. Dickens could spend hours wandering through the streets. He did not even knowing it, but he got a true education here, in the slums of London. A young Charles has created in his mind a future London by Dickens. He paved a way for his heroes: in which lane of the city they would not hide, he had been there before.
A maternal inheritance of John and William Dickens was enough to pay off to creditors and ti provide more or less decent life to the family. Charles left a factory with considerable joy and continued his education at a private school. After it he started work as a junior clerk at a lawyer Blackmore. Having a lively character he attended performances and dreaming about a future …