Extrinsic Element (Mutual Friend)

Charles the Tempter was born in 1812 in Portsmouth, Hampshire, England, to derriere and Elizabeth Barrow Dickens. The second of eight children, Dickens spent his childhood on the southern coast of England, where he attended a good instruct until the age of eleven. The family then moved to London and shortly thereafter his render was sent to debtors prison. Young Charles went to work in a blacking store and was forced to live on his own in cheap pad of paper in a state of near starvation.Although he was soon save by his father and sent to school in London, the brief point in time of abandonment and uncertainty affected his life and his writings for years to come. Dickens did not attend college but was admitted as a reader to the subroutine library of the British Museum, where he immersed himself in the study of great literature, particularly Shakespeare. He worked for some time as a clerk, as a stenography reporter, and eventu onlyy as a news reporter for the Morning Chronicl e, a position which required him to travel all over the country. Career Dickenss front success, both critical and popular, was Sketches by Boz (1836), a series of short pieces on life in London. His first novel, Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club (1837), was published, as were all of his novels, in serial form, and by the time the fourth periodic installment was issued, Dickens was the most popular author in England. His writing, once full of hope and optimism, grew increasingly pessimistic as he aged, with images of decompose and corruption dominating the later works.Our Mutual Friend was his last finish novel with its images of dustheaps and death, it is widely considered one of the authors darkest visions. In 1870, while working on The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Dickens suffered an aneurysm in the brain and died the abutting day. He was buried in the Poets Corner of Westminster Abbey. Dickens Works Over the next thirty years, he continued to publish successful novels, amo ng them Oliver Twist (1838), A Christmas Carol In Prose (1843), The Personal History of David Copperfield (1850), Bleak House (1853), stark Times for These Hard Times (1854), A Tale of Two Cities (1859), and owing(p) Expectations 1861). View Charles Dickens distaste for the upper class and his strong use up in social reform is very evident in all of his writings.Throughout his life, he continually worked on writing novels that reflected his own soak up of the social classes. Dickens writes his characters of the lower social class to have to a greater extent value than the aristocrats that in his own view he has grown to reject B. SOCIOLOGICAL ASPECTS World view most people in england in the middle of nineteenth century did not have gold. They could not get down ladies and gentlemen. They were the working class. Some working class people, like Bradley Headstone and Charley Hexam cute to do better in life. Economy England in the middle of 19th century grew wealthy. Many peop le suddenly became rich. People who have money could become part of Society. Society people were known as ladies and gentlemen.