1812 - born in Portsmouth
1815 - his family moved to London
1817 - his family moved to Chatham in Kent
1823 - moved to Camden in London
1833 - his first story published
1836 - a first novel published
1836 - married with Catherine Hogarth
1838 - wrote Oliver Twist
1842 - visited USA
1850 - started a weekly magazine called Household Words
1858 - separated from his wife
1866 - visited the USA again
1970 - died
Turning Points
- job in a boot blacking factory
- leave the blacking factory and return to school
- left school at the age of 15 and he started work in a solicitors office
- married a woman named Catherine
- Charles and Catherine separated in 1858
Achievements
- became a journalist at age of 16
- the first story published in a periodical Monthly Magazine
- the first novel published( The Pickwick Papers)
- Dickens wrote many novels
- started a weekly magazine called Household Words
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