There were many great English novelists in the 1800's. Among these writers was the famous Charles Dickens. In his life, Dickens went from having nothing to having everything. Ironically, he started off from a harsh childhood but later became one of the most popular writers of all times. The characters and events in many of Dickens books are based on the events and people in his life. He has been criticized and commended, but in the end he was genuinely known as an inventive artist.
             Charles Dickens rose from an arduous background. He was born in Portsmouth, England in 1812, when two years later he moved to London with his family. His father, John, was a negligent clerk who worked for the navy and later was sent to prison for debts. McCallum, an English professor, stated that "When Dickens family was released from prison his mother forced him to work at a factory, providing him with a negative attitude towards women." The previous quote shows that Dickens family forced him to do may things he did not wish to do. When he was fifteen he worked at a law firm and got lethargic, so he started writing. He then started out as a reporter and worked his way up to becoming an advancing author.
             In many of Dickens fourteen novels he matched the people and events around him with his characters. His first novel, The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, which was published in 1837 was a great success. This was about the adventures of Samuel Pickwick and his friends. Through this novel readers addressed him by the pen name "Boz." In Perdue's analysis of Dickens he stated that "Only when the entire work was published was the author's identity revealed which launched Dickens to celebrity status"(1). In the previous quote, Dickens states that his first novel was the first step to his popularity. Dicken's twelfth and thirteenth novels, published in 1859 and 1861, seemed to be the most known novels by readers. In his twelf...