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Charles Dickens
English novelist and social critic (1812–1870)
Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 7 February 1812, 1812
- Died
- 9 June 1870, 1870
- Place of birth
- Landport, Portsmouth
- Place of death
- Gads Hill Place, Higham
- Sex or gender
- male
- Family name
- Dickens
- Father
- John Dickens
- Mother
- Elizabeth Dickens
- Spouse
- Catherine Dickens
- Child
- Charles Dickens, Jr., Mary Dickens, Kate Perugini, Walter Landor Dickens, Francis Dickens, Alfred D'Orsay Tennyson Dickens, Sydney Smith Haldimand Dickens, Henry Fielding Dickens, Dora Annie Dickens, Edward Dickens
- Movement
- literary realism
- Genre
- novella, non-fiction
- Field of work
- literature
- Occupation
- writer, novelist, journalist, social critic, playwright, author, children's writer, editor, prose writer, botanist, short story writer, parliamentary stenographer
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Native language
- British English
- Religion
- Anglicanism
- birth name
- Charles John Huffam Dickens
- cause of death
- cerebral hemorrhage
- contributed to creative work
- Household Words
- contributor to the creative work or subject
- Household Words
- depicted by
- Charles Dickens in his Study
- described by source
- Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, Dictionary of National Biography, 1885–1900, Encyclopædia Britannica Ninth Edition, Larousse Encyclopedia online, Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron, New International Encyclopedia (1902–1905), The American Cyclopædia, The New Student's Reference Work, BEIC Digital Library, The Nuttall Encyclopædia
- documentation files at
- SAPA Foundation, Swiss Archive of the Performing Arts
- family
- Dickens family
- has works in the collection
- Victoria and Albert Museum, Geldersch Landschap en Kasteelen, Royal Collections of the Netherlands, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Anne Frank House
- influenced by
- Daniel Defoe, Walter Scott, Henry Fielding, Elizabeth Inchbald, Tobias Smollett
- languages spoken, written or signed
- English, British English
- list of works
- Charles Dickens bibliography
- manner of death
- natural causes
- name in native language
- Charles Dickens
- notable work
- The Pickwick Papers, Oliver Twist, A Christmas Carol, David Copperfield, Bleak House, Hard Times: For These Times, Little Dorrit, A Tale of Two Cities, Great Expectations, Barnaby Rudge, Our Mutual Friend, Nicholas Nickleby
- permanent duplicated item
- Q13208067
- place of burial
- Westminster Abbey
- pseudonym
- بوز
- residence
- Charles Dickens Museum, Tavistock House
- topic has template
- Template:Charles Dickens
- topic's main category
- Category:Charles Dickens
- topic's main Wikimedia portal
- Portal:Charles Dickens
- unmarried partner
- Ellen Ternan
- work location
- Rochester
- writing language
- British English
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