101 Amazing Facts about Charles Dickens by Jack Goldstein & Isabella Reese

Author:Jack Goldstein & Isabella Reese
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: dickens, great expectations, oliver, christmas carol, learn, omgfacts, education, victorian, amazing, school, two cities, Pickwick, Nickelby, Curiousity, Chuzzlewit, Hard Times, Dorrit, Copperfield
ISBN: 9781783336876
Publisher: Andrews UK Limited 2014
Published: 2014-03-11T00:00:00+00:00

Interesting Facts

In 1823 Dickens was forced to work in a factory when his father was arrested and thrown into a debtor’s prison. The young Charles was made to label bottles for six shillings a week and it was this experience that inspired him to write a terrible scene of child labour into Oliver Twist.

Dickens sprang into the literary game with the publication of The Pickwick Papers in 1836. Within a few years he quickly became an international celebrity, famous for his humour, satire and keen observations of characters and society.

Dickens was involved in a train accident near Staplehurst in which 10 people died and 49 were injured, but he himself thankfully came out unscathed. He was reading through his manuscript of Our Mutual Friend at the time of the accident.

Dickens’s study contained a secret door which was made to look like a bookcase, full of fake books. It was rumoured to hold fake titles such as Noah’s Arkitecture and a nine-volume collection called Cat’s Lives.

In real life, Dickens owned a pet raven called Grip. The bird was even introduced to his fiction in the serialized mystery Barnaby Rudge. Edgar Allan Poe, who later met Dickens when he travelled to America, reviewed the book, commenting that the raven should have loomed larger in the plot.

Literary experts have since surmised that this talking corvid may well have inspired Poe’s most famous poem The Raven, first published in 1845.

After Grip died in 1841, Charles Dickens had the bird mounted, and it now resides at the Free Library on Logan Circle in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Charles suffered from asthma, but was able to find relief from his chest troubles by using opium, a popular remedy of his day!

In addition to this, he also suffered from long bouts of insomnia.

Charles Dickens appeared on the British ten pound note that was in circulation between 1992 and 2003.

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