After receiving an inheritance, John Dickens was released and Charles was sent to the private Wellington House Academy in North London. He was an average student and left at 15 to work in a ...

Charles Dickens developed a ritualistic routine in his domestic life, together with an obsessive approach to work, which is consistent ... he stayed in a hotel room and inspecting his children's ...

Charles Dickens lived in the 1800s, the Victorian age. Life could be hard for children then. Many had to go out to work. At 12, Dickens himself left school to work in a factory putting labels on pots.