Презентация, доклад по английскому языку Чарльз Диккенс

second of eight children. His father was a clerk in the Navy Pay Office.

Charles spent time outdoors but also read voraciously, including the picaresque novels of Tobias Smollett and Henry Fielding, as well as Robinson Crusoe and Gil Blas.
He read and reread The Arabian Nights and the Collected Farces of Elizabeth Inchbald.
He retained poignant memories of childhood, helped by an excellent memory of people and events, which he used in his writing.

days, where he earned six shillings a week pasting
The strenuous and often harsh working conditions made a lasting impression on Dickens
The blacking-warehouse was the tumble-down old house, abutting of course on the river, and literally overrun with rats. Its rotten floors and staircase, and the old grey rats swarming down in the cellars, and the sound of their squeaking and scuffling coming up the stairs at all times, and the dirt and decay of the place, rise up visibly before me, as if I were there again.

Elizabeth Dickens, died and bequeathed him £450. On the expectation of this legacy, Dickens was released from prison. Under the Insolvent Debtors Act, Dickens arranged for payment of his creditors.

Town, having spent about two years there. He did not consider it to be a good school, but poor discipline punctuated by the headmaster's sadistic brutality, the seedy ushers and general run-down atmosphere, are embodied in Establishment in David Copperfield. Dickens worked at the law office, as a junior clerk. He was a gifted impersonated lawyers, and clerks.

wanted to become. He had set out on his career as a writer.] In 1833 he submitted his first story, "A Dinner at Poplar Walk", and he worked in the House of Commons for the first time early in 1832.
He worked as a political journalist, reporting on Parliamentary debates, and he travelled across Britain to cover election campaigns for the Morning Chronicle. His journalism, in the form of sketches in periodicals, formed his first collection of pieces
He contributed to and edited journals throughout his literary career.
In January 1835 the Morning Chronicle launched an evening edition, Hogarth invited Dickens to contribute Street Sketches and Dickens became a regular visitor to his Fulham house, excited by Hogarth's friendship with a hero of his, Walter Scott, and enjoying the company of Hogarth's three daughters—Georgina, Mary, and nineteen-year-old Catherine

a position he held for three years, until he fell out with the owner.[45] In 1836 as he finished the last instalments of The Pickwick Papers, he began writing the beginning instalments of Oliver Twist, published in 1838, became one of Dickens's better known stories, and was the first novel with a child protagonist

George Hogarth, Dickens became very attached to Mary, and she died in his arms after a brief illness in 1837.
For Dickens, it was shock, he stopped working.

It was success. The young Queen Victoria read both Oliver Twist and Pickwick, staying up until midnight to discuss them.

the United States and Canada.
He described his impressions in a travelogue, American Notes for General Circulation. Dickens includes in Notes a powerful condemnation of slavery, which he had attacked as early as The Pickwick Papers, the emancipation of the poor in England.
Dickens spent a month in New York City, giving lectures, raising the question of international copyright laws and the pirating of his work in America. He persuaded a group of twenty-five writers, headed by Washington Irving, to sign a petition for him to take to Congress

began work on the first of his Christmas stories, was most popular Dickens to resolve to "strike a sledge hammer blow" for the poor.
Dickens became engrossed in the book. He later wrote that as the tale unfolded he "wept and laughed, and wept again" as he "walked about the black streets of London fifteen or twenty miles many a night when all sober folks had gone to bed.

aspects of organized religion. Dickens honoured the figure of Christ—though some claim he may have denied his divinity. Notwithstanding, Dickens has been characterized as a professing Christian, who "possessed deep religious convictions". Dickens had showed an interest in Unitarian Christianity, the writer Gary Colledge, which was a short book about the life of Jesus Christ, written with the purpose of inculcating his faith to his children and family.
Dickens disapproved of Roman Catholicism and 19th-century evangelicalism, and was critical of what he saw as the hypocrisy of religious institutions and philosophies like spiritualism, all of which he considered deviations from the true spirit of Christianity. Lev Tolstoy and Fyodor Dostoyevsky referred to Dickens as "that great Christian writer

 Dickens's continued fascination with the theatrical world was written into the theatre scenes, but more importantly he found an outlet in public readings

In 1857, Dickens hired professional actresses for the play The Frozen Deep, written by him and his protégé, Wilkie Collins. Dickens fell deeply in love with one of the actresses, Ellen Ternan, and this passion was to last the rest of his life.

one of the early members of The Ghost Club and Edward —migrated to Australia, Edward (his son) becoming a member of the Parliament of New South Wales as Member for Wilcannia 

the Staplehurst rail crash. The train's first seven carriages plunged off a cast iron bridge that was under repair.

Dickens later used this experience as material for his short ghost story, "The Signal-Man».

after a full day's work. He never regained consciousness, and the next day, five years to the day after the Staplehurst rail crash.
Contrary to his wish to be buried at Rochester Cathedral "in an inexpensive, unostentatious, and strictly private manner, he was laid to rest in the Poets' Corner of Westminster Abbey.
A printed epitaph circulated at the time of the funeral reads: "To the Memory of Charles Dickens, aged 58 years. He was a sympathizer with the poor, the suffering, and the oppressed; and by his death, one of England's greatest writers is lost to the world.
In his will, Dickens left the care of his £80,000 estate to his longtime colleague John Forster and his "best and truest friend" Georgina Hogarth.
Although Dickens and his wife had been separated, he provided her with an annual income of £600 and made her also bequeathed £19 19s to each servant.