Part 1 of Essay
Charles Dickens was born on February 7, 1812, and spent the first nine years of his life living in Kent, a marshy region by the sea in the west of England. Dickens' father John was a kind and likable man, but he was incompetent with money and piled up tremendous debts throughout his life. When Dickens was nine, his family ....

Part 2 of Essay
.... first novel, The Pickwick Papers, became a huge popular success when Dickens was only twenty-five, and he was a literary celebrity throughout England for the rest of his life. Many of the events from Dickens' early childhood are mirrored in , which, apart from David Copperfield, is his most autobiographical novel. Pip, the novel's protagonist, lives in the marsh country, works at a job he hates, considers himself too good for his surroundings, and experiences material success in London at a very early age. In addi ....