Early Years
Family
Career
Strange Facts
Literature
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What was Charles Dickens' birthdate?
February 7, 1812
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10 children
How many children did Charles and Catherine Dickens have?
100
How many children did Charles and Catherine Dickens have?
10
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What was Charles Dickens interested in besides writing?
Magic and hypnotism.
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What classic novel did Dickens write in 1843?
A Christmas Carol
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Where was Charles Dickens born?
Landport, Portsmouth
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What did Charles Dickens nickname two of his children?
Skittles and Chickenstalker
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What famous author stayed with Dickens and annoyed him?
Hans Christian Anderson
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What was the name of Catherine's sister with whom Dickens was close?
Mary
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What book did he Dickens write that was somewhat autobiographical about his experiences in the Blacking Factory?
"David Copperfield"
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John Dickens
What was Charles Dickens' father's name?
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Why was Charles Dickens' father arrested and sent to prison?
He was not paying his debts to the creditors.
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What was Dickens' pseudonym (pen-name)?
"Boz"
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What school did he attend to after his father was released in prison?
Wellington House Academy
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What did Dickens have hidden behind a bookshelf in his home?
A secret room
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How old was Dickens when he first started working?
12
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What is a cold shower?
Dickens said that "a _____________ of the best quality, always charged to an unlimited extent, has become a necessary of life to me."
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Whom did Dickens marry?
Catherine Hogarth
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What was the skill that allowed him to work as a court reporter documenting a variety of legal documents?
short hand
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Mary served as inspiration for what?
Literary heroines in many of Dickens' novels.
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Where was Dickens' first job?
At a boot blacking factory.
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What was the name of Dickens' pet raven that he had stuffed?
Grip
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What method of writing did Dickens make popular?
a serial
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What is a type of story that is printed chapter by chapter, one week (or month) at a time?
a serial
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Where is Charles Dickens buried?
Poet's Corner at Westminster Abbey
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