Charles Dickens was born on February 7, 1812 , in Landport district , located in the city of Portsmouth, son of John Dickens ( 1786-1851 ) , clerk of the Paymaster of the Navy arsenal in the port of Portsmouth, and his wife Elizabeth Barrow ( 1789-1863 ) . In 1814 , the family moved to London , Somerset House, at number ten on Norfolk Street. When the future writer was five, the family moved to Chatham , Kent. His mother was middle class and his father always dragged debts due to his excessive inclination to waste . Charles received no education until the age of nine years, which later critics reproached him , considering his training in self excess. At this age , after attending a school in Rome Lane , studied culture in school William Gile , a graduate in Oxford. He spent his time away from home, reading voraciously. He showed a particular fondness for the picaresque novels such as The Adventures of Roderick Random and The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle by Tobias Smollett and Henry Fielding 's Tom Jones . This would be your favorite writer . I also read with relish adventure novels like Robinson Crusoe and Don Quixote . In 1823 , he lived with his family in London , at 16 Bayham Street, Camden Town , which was then one of the poorest suburbs of the city . Although his early years seem to have been an idyllic time, he was described as a " very small and not especially child care ." Also talk about your end pathos and his photographic memory of people and events that helped transfer the reality ficción.2
Her life changed profoundly when his father was denounced by defaulting on their debts and imprisoned in the Marshalsea debtor's prison . Most of the family moved to live with Mr. Dickens to jail, then possibility established by law , which allowed the family of the delinquent share his cell. Charles was welcomed in a house in Little College Street , run by Mrs. Roylance Sunday and went to visit her father in prison.
At twelve , it was considered that the future novelist was old enough to start working , and began his working life in workdays ten hours in Warren's boot- blacking factory, a factory for shoe polish , located near the present Charing Cross railway station in London. During this period his life was spent pasting labels on cans polish shoes ( shoe polish ); earned six shillings a week . With this money , I had to pay for their lodging and helped the family, most of whom wer