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| | Charles Dickens Encyclopedia Article @ LaunchBase.org (Launch Base) |
 | | Dickens may have drawn on his childhood experiences, but he was also ashamed of them and would not reveal that this was where he got his realistic accounts of squalor. | | | Most of Dickens' major novels were first written in monthly or weekly instalments in journals such as Master Humphrey's Clock and Household Words, later reprinted in book form. | | | Dickens' novels were, among other things, works of social commentary. |
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| | Literary Encyclopedia: Charles Dickens |
| | John Dickens was far from being at the centre of this world, of course, as the son of even a senior servant, but it seems likely that his acquaintance with this high life made him feel that he himself was a gentleman, occupying a higher social position than he was fated to inhabit. | | | His father also was a vivid personality, fond of his son and proud of his childish achievements; but, and this is where John Dickens’s upbringing may come into play, his father was financially careless and had a seemingly inveterate tendency to live a style of life which his salary could not justify. | | | This enabled him to place one of his sons in the Office and it was through the son’s friendship with John Dickens, Charles’s father, that the relationship between Dickens’s parents began. |
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