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I love the stories of Charles Dickens.

David Copperfield was released as a serial between 1849 and 1850. Telling the story of a man from childhood through to childhood, it was perhaps the most autobiographical of Dickens' works. The theme was more serious and it was more carefully planned than his previous works.

In 1851, Dickens moved to Tavistock House. While there, he wrote Bleak House (1852-53), a novel which dealt with the hypocrisy of British society. He followed this with Hard Times (1854) , which took place in an industrial town at the peak of economic expanision. Next came Little Dorrit (1857). In 1856, he bought Gad's Hill Place in Higham, Kent. As a child he had walked past and dreamt of living there.

Dickens had an interest in amateur theatre. In 1857, he hired actresses for a play which he had written with Wilkie Collins. Dickens began an affair with one of the actresses, Ellen Ternan. Dickens was 45 and Ternan was 18.

In 1858, Dickens separated from his wife, Catherine. Catherine left the home of the writer, taking one of their children. The rest of the children stayed with her sister Georgina.

Scandalous though it may have been, Dickens and Ellen Ternan stayed together until he died. Many scholars believe that Dickens named several characters in his stories after Ellen Ternan.

In 1859 Dickens published A Tale of Two Cities, a historical novel set during the French Revolution. This was published as a weekly serial in the periodical that he founded, All the Year Round. Great Expectations (1860-1861), which was about the central character's lifelong journey of moral development. Our Mutual Friend (1864-1865) examined the psychological impact of wealth on London society.

Dickens was involved in a rail crash in June 1865. The first seven carriages of a train fell off a bridge which was being repaired. Dickens was in the only first-class carriage which remained on the track. He was not physically harmed, but he the incident caused him a great deal of trauma.

From 1867 to 1868, Dickens made a second tour of America, hoping to make things right after some saw his writings as critical of the nation. While there, he promised to praise the United States in reprints of the books American Notes for General Circulation and Th