The Novel of Daily Experiences and Environment

Charles Dickens was an influential writer natural on February 7, 1812 in Portsm starth, Eng prop. His father, John Dickens, was a minor clerk in the navy offices, a friendly man with a monolithic family (Charles was the guerilla of eight children) and they did not receive a very high income. The family drifted from whizz poor home in London to an some other, each worse than the conk out hotshot. Soon Charles father and family ended up in the Marshalsea Prison because they were mystifying in debt.This left young Charles break awaying in a dirty, remiss warehouse, living in a garret, vi tantalizeing his family in prison on Sunold age if he could, and feeling that his life was shattered before it had ever flat begun. Then an unexpected inheritance, that had fin anyy come after a abundant measure, restored the family to an average lifestyle, and Charles had a a bracing of(prenominal) nice, quiet years at a private school. Charles later do his father into one of the charac ters in a book he wrote. His father was represented as Mr. Micawber.Charles did this because of the capacious respect and affection that he held for his father. When his own salary increase fortune and fame made Charles in charge of a great publisher, he put his father on the staff to have control over the dispatches and bought him a small province house. Dickens mother ,however, was unsympathetic and unconscious of his genius. She meant much less to him than his father, and it didnt help when she strongly disapproved of his leaving work to go to school. He made her into the character of Mrs. Nickleby.A few years of secondary school was Charles however education where he was actually in a classroom reading books taught to him by a teacher. His real education came from his reading, observations, and daily experiences. Except for the English novels of the 18th century, he knew hardly anything of great literature. And he knew practically nothing intimately floor and foreign po litics. His novels all deal with his own days experiences, his surroundings, and they take place in his own time.There are only two exceptions, his two diachronic novels A Tale of Two Cities and Barnaby Rudge. These two novels were set in the novel past of the French Revolution and the Gordon Riots. By teaching himself shorthand, Dickens obtained the redact of court reporter in the old Doctors Commons. This experience gave him a preposterous dis manage of law that never left him. He also went to other cities and towns to report election speeches, transcribing his notes on the palm of his hand. This experience gave him a detailed and sometimes cynical view of government. He often put such(prenominal) feelings of his into his works. Charles Dickens was drawn to acting.He loved the stage, the acters, the plays, and everything else that went with it. For many nights he would sit awake almost mesmerized by the dramas he had seen that day in the London theatre. He was very interested in all of the love, treachery, and battles in the plays. These melodramas affected Charles deeply, and he never forgot them for the remainder of his life. His intense concentration and oddness on the subject of acting helped to give him that quality in his writing, which is cognize by some to be almost hypnotic, that so many peck enjoy.As we all k like a shot, Charles Dickens never did follow his animosity and go an actor, but fate led him in a different statement to that of a writer, his other rumornt and passion. He turned in stories downstairs a false name, Boz, to an editor. When one finally was published, Charles was overjoyed. He sent in to a greater extent and soon had an agreement where he would be payed about cardinal dollars for each monthly installment of his humorous literature. This was called the Pickwick Papers. The week they were released Charles was wed to one of the daughters of a newspaper associate of his, named Catherine Hogarth.They did not love each other very much, for although Charles was a genius, he was also a bit self-conceited. The Pickwick Papers did not do well at first, but as Charles added more and more unique characters, new scenes, and twisting plots that were all based on his imagination, they started to sell. Boz was rising in the world to the height of success in only a few years because of the Pickwick Papers and the books that followed, such as Oliver Twist, Nicholas Nickleby, Old Curiosity Shop, and Barnaby Rudge. He was no longer a poor boy, but a wealthy, famous, married man.He had conquered England. Now there was America, a whole new land who had never heard of Charles Dickens and was just waiting to be subjected to his writings and works. So Charles started to let them k flat. America had welcomed his books from the start, mostly because of the lack of internationalistic secure that permitted American publishers to print his novels without paying him. bingle other reason that he wanted to move on to America was that Charles was, in his youth, a root word who hated Toryism and aristocracy. Therefore, he longed to study America and its freedom first hand. divergence their four children at home, he landed with his wife in capital of Massachusetts in January 1842. The town welcomed him with open arms, and he attended many parties, dinners, and receptions. many another(prenominal) thrilled people were often praising him, and he loved the cheers and admiration. Here he made many friendships that he never lost, hitherto when he found out that America wasnt as great as he had thought it to be in the beginning. After Boston, he traveled on to New York, wherefore Philadelphia, and then Baltimore and Washington. In all places he was treated as royalty, receptions and crowds waited to meet him at every stop.He all the same met the President and the Congress. Always ready to raise his voice in apology of a cause he believed in, Charles spoke everywhere of the need for an internatio nal copyright agreement that would protect the rights of both American and British writers. He felt that it was unfair and unjust that American publishers should print and sell his or anyone elses books without permission from him and without paying him any royalties. Charles Dickens, although, did not speak of himself as the only victim of this practice. He pointed out that all British writers deserved this right. in like manner he acknowledged that American writers, such as Edgar Allan Poe, suffered from the illegal change or reproducing of their works in England. The newspapers in America were appalled by these statements and accused Charles Dickens of bad taste and of abusing American hospitality. In time Charles view of America as a great country faded. One of his writings, called the American Notes, revealed his views on this and showed his disgust of America. Everything he had seen before of America now seemed different, his views changed on everything he laid eyes on.In Cha rles new viewpoint, Americans all seemed to chew tobacco. And they kept slaves, whom he was constantly comparing with the factory slaves of England. To him the American Government seemed to be full of nothing but fraud, trickery, and cheating. Then he traveled westmost, traveling as far as Cairo, Illinois. His vision of the West contained nothing but foul and reeking canal boats, dank swamps, loud bullfrogs, and that horrible tobacco juice. He refused to see the beauty of America, the hard work that settlers had done to make it what it had become, to give it its government and to produce the goods that came rom its factories.He had become impatient, irritable, and cross. No one could please him. After spending a short time in Canada with his friends, he left headed back to England where he would damage the credit and reputation of America in his writings. The years that followed Charles rejoinder from America were filled with more activity, fame, and success than in the early sta ges of his life. In 1851 he made a grand home at Tavistock square(p) and lived in great style. His friends were the leading artists, authors, and actors of the day. Later on, he purchased a large country house at Gads Hill.This had been a dream of his ever since his childhood. His novels, which now were appearing in continual monthly episodes, were very popular. Their success, when looking like it was about to be diminished, only rised to fame once again. Most people mean that David Copperfield was the best of his works at this time. Through all of Charles Dickens works of sorrow and those of joy, people saw the difference between the ones when he was young and carefree, to those of his more serious middle aged years. Soon, Charles became dissatisfied with his writing. He wanted more.He decided that what he wanted to do was become a newspaper editor. This way, he could reform all of England. When he told his friends of the idea, they enthusiastically took their money and founded the perfunctory News. In January of 1846 gave himself the job of editor, but after only nineteen days of the work, he quit. In 1850 he started a weekly journal, called Household Words, and then a clipping in 1859, called All the Year Round. In this magazine he published many of his famous works, such as Christmas Stories, A Tale of Two Cities, and Great Expectations. During this time Charles Dickens began to remember his passion for the theatre. He started to do amateur theatricals, which was made possible by his management, energy, and enthusiasm. He also added public lectures and readings from his works to his theatricals. Charles even made a few tours in Ireland, England, and in Scotland that were very successful for him. Charles got seperated from his wife, Catherine, in 1858. Her younger sister, named Georgina, had lived with the couple for many years. She remained with Charles until his death, and his will provided for both sisters.The public were always curious about his pe rsonal life, and Charles found relief and refuge in the excitement of his work. He traveled to America again in order to tour, and it turned out to be very successful, but also very tiring for aging Charles. Once he returned home to England, he continued on with his lectures, and made his last appearance in March of 1870. During his retirement, he put great effort and strife into finishing his last work, The Mystery of Edwin Drood. The book, a tale of murder, was left unfinished on June 9, 1870, the day that Englands most remarkable and original writer, Charles Dickens, died.