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| Birth name | Charles John Huffam Dickens | | Birth date | 7 February 1812 | | Place of birth | Landport, Portsmouth,
England | | Date of death | 9 June 1870(age 58) | | Death place | Gad's Hill Place, Higham, Kent,
England | | Cause of death | Stroke | | Resting place | Poets' Corner, Westminster Abbey | | Nationality | British | | Other names | Boz | | Citizenship | UK | | Occupation | Writer | | Years active | 1833 - 1870 | | Notable works | Sketches by Boz, The Old Curiosity Shop, Oliver Twist, Nicholas Nickleby, Barnaby Rudge, A Christmas Carol, Martin Chuzzlewit, A Tale of Two Cities, David Copperfield, Great Expectations, Bleak House, Little Dorrit, Hard Times, Our Mutual Friend, The Pickwick Papers | | Spouse | Catherine Thomson Hogarth | | Children | Charles Dickens, Jr., Mary Dickens, Kate Perugini, Walter Landor Dickens, Francis, Alfred D'Orsay Tennyson Dickens, Sydney Smith Haldimand Dickens, Henry Fielding Dickens, Dora Annie Dickens, and Edward Dickens | | Parents | John Dickens
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Charles John Huffam Dickens ( ; 7 February 1812 - 9 June 1870) was the most popular English novelist of the Victorian era, and he remains popular, responsible for some of English literature's most iconic characters.
Many of his novels, with their recurrent concern for social reform, first appeared in magazines in serialised form, a popular format at the time. Unlike other authors who completed entire novels before serialisation, Dickens often created the episodes as they were being serialized. The practice lent his stories a particular rhythm, punctuated by cliffhangers to keep the public looking forward to the next instalment. The continuing popularity of his novels and short stories is such that they have never gone out of print.
His work has been praised for its mastery of prose and unique personalities by writers such as George Gissing, Leo Tolstoy and G. K. Chesterton; though others, such as Henry James and Virginia Woolf, criticised it for sentimentality and implausibility.
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