he went to work in a factory
When his family moved to Marshalsea debtors' prison, Charles Dickens went to work at Warren's Blacking Warehouse to help support them. He was around 12 years old at the time.
12 years old
Charles Dickens went to live and work at Warren's Blacking Warehouse while the rest of his family moved to Marshalsea debtor's prison. He worked long hours pasting labels on pots of boot blacking, an experience that deeply affected him and influenced his writing in later years.
Charles Dickens was 12 when they moved to London
Charles Dickens moved to Kent in 1856, after purchasing Gad's Hill Place in Higham, Kent. He lived in this house until his death in 1870.
Charles Dickens was born in England and spent his childhood there. He did not move to England at any specific point in his life.
yes Charles dickens was born in Portsmouth and you can visit his birthplace there today.
he was 18
Dickens's early years began in Chatham, where he was a pupil at a dame-school -- a deficient private establishment with an unqualified woman at its head. Then in 1821 he moved on to the Rev. William Giles's School, where his experiences were more positive. He parted with Giles in 1822, when the Dickens family transferred to London, and in 1824, when they moved into the Marshalsea. In 1824 his father was imprisended for a debt. The family except Charles were allowed to go to prosion with him. Charles went to work in a "Shoe Blacking" company until 1825. His formal schooling resumed in 1825, when he was sent to Wellington House Classical and Commercial Academy, Dickens left in 1827 He then became a Law clerk, with Ellis and Blackmore (1827-1828)
In 1822, Charles Dickens moved to Camden Town, a district in northwest London, with his family. They lived in a house in Bayham Street for a few months before relocating to other places in London.
his mother was a prostitute
When Charles Dickens was a child he enjoyed being outside and reading.When he was 12 his father went to jail because he was in dept so Charles worked inWarren's boot- blacking factory for the white.
Charles Dickens lived in three different places as a boy: Portsmouth, where he was born; Chatham, where his family moved when he was young; and London, where he settled as a teenager after his father was sent to debtors' prison.
Charles Dickens married to Catherine Thomson Hogarth in 1836