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      • Charles John Huffam Dickens was born in 1812, in Portsmouth on England's south coast, and was one of eight children. His family moved around though, and he grew up in London and Kent. When Charles was 12 his father was sent to prison because of financial problems.
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  2. Jul 5, 2012 · Charles was not that child. His parents chose to send their daughter, Fanny, to school. She had a talent for music and was sent to an academy. Sketch of Charles Dickens in 1842 (Small image on the bottom left is his sister, Fanny)

  3. Charles Dickens had seven brothers and sisters. He and his wife had ten children. The Dickens family had a pet raven (a large black bird) called Grip. When Grip died, Dickens had it stuffed!

  4. www.charlesdickensinfo.com › life › dickens-childrenThe Children of Charles Dickens

    Jul 5, 2012 · Charles Dickens had ten children. Learn about each of them from the eldest went bankrupt to the youngest who became a Member of Parliament in New South Wales.

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  5. Charles Dickens was born on 7 February 1812 at 1 Mile End Terrace (now 393 Commercial Road), Landport in Portsea Island , Hampshire, the second of eight children of Elizabeth Dickens (née Barrow; 1789–1863) and John Dickens (1785–1851). His father was a clerk in the Navy Pay Office and was temporarily stationed in the district.

  6. His own father became a reporter and Charles began with the journals 'The Mirror of Parliament' and 'The True Sun'. Then in 1833 he became parliamentary journalist for The Morning Chronicle.

  7. Mar 9, 2022 · Charles Dickens' Children. Charles Culliford (Charley) Dickens (1837-1896) - Dickens' first child, educated at Eton, and studied business in Germany. Charley was the only child who lived with his mother after Dickens' separation with Catherine in 1858.

  8. Shortly after his birth, Dickens’ parents, John and Elizabeth, moved the family to Bloomsbury in London and then to Chatham in Kent, where Dickens spent much of his childhood. Whilst John’s fleeting stint as a clerk in the Navy Pay Office allowed Charles to enjoy a private education at Chatham’s William Giles’s School for a time, he was ...

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