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 ...

When his father was called to London again to be a clerk in the Naval Pay Office, the elder Dickens amassed so much debt that the entire family—except for Charles ... school and work at Warren ...

Early in the winter of 1841 it had been announced that Charles Dickens would shortly ... In one corner of the room, Dexter the sculptor was earnestly at work modelling a bust of Mr.

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.

Here, too, he visited the tobacco factories, and saw "the happy slaves singing at their work ... deck space with room for a couple of chairs, and here Mr. and Mrs. Dickens sat for hours, greatly ...

The Charles Dickens Birthplace Museum will host a special event on Friday, February 7, to celebrate the 213th anniversary of ...