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  1. media.nationalarchives.gov.uk › index › the-realThe real Little Dorrit: Charles Dickens and the debtors’ prison

    Nov 28, 2008 · And really, the big event in Dickens’ life is in 1824, when his father, John Dickens, was arrested for debt, and imprisoned in the Marshalsea, and as a result, Charles, who was only 12 at...

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  2. victorianweb.org › authors › dickensDebtors in Charles Dickens's Life and Work - The Victorian Web

    All this is familiar to us because biographer John Forster has made available to us Dickens's personal and very painful recollections of his father's arrest and imprisonment in an autobiographical fragment, recollections which are also reflected in "Where We Stopped Growing" (Household Words, 1 January 1853).

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  4. www.bbc.co.uk › littledorrit › biographyBBC - Little Dorrit - Charles Dickens

    Oct 15, 2008 · Aged 12, Dickens was sent to work at a boot-blacking factory when his father was imprisoned in Marshalsea debtors prison. His father owed £40 - the same amount as Edward, Amy Dorrit's...

  5. media.nationalarchives.gov.uk › index › charlesCharles Dickens, Warren’s Blacking and the Chancery Court

    Oct 1, 2010 · At the age of 12, the delicate and genteelly brought up Charles Dickens was plunged into employment in a boot-blacking factory, while his father was incarcerated in Marshalsea debtors’ prison....

  6. www.thegenealogist.co.uk › featuredarticles › 2019Little Dorrit, Dickens and Dad’s Debts - New Criminal records ...

    Apr 26, 2019 · Searching through the newly released PRIS 10 and PRIS 11 records of the King’s Bench Prison, Queen’s and Fleet Prisons and Marshalsea Prison, we find that John Dickens, father of famous author Charles Dickens, was incarcerated in Marshalsea Debtors’ Prison on 20th February 1824.

  7. www.newyorker.com › books › page-turnerCharles Dickens, the Writer Who Saw Lockdown Everywhere

    Dec 24, 2020 · In February of 1824, Charles Dickens watched in anguish as his father was arrested for debt and sent to the Marshalsea prison, just south of the Thames, in London. “I really believed at the...

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  9. www.charlesdickenspage.com › charles-dickensLittle Dorrit - The Charles Dickens Page

    Mar 14, 2022 · Charles Dickens' readers were not aware of his intimate relationship to the prison, the story of his father's imprisonment there not being told until his first biographer, John Forster, revealed it after Dickens' death in 1870 (Forster, 1899, v. 1, p. 22-39).