Why did Charles dickens life suck so much?

Answer 1

Society has enormously progressed during the past 150 years, you could not imagine how hard life used to be, even in a developed and "enlightened" country such as England. Poverty was regarded as a sort of sin and institutions like the Debtors' Prison or the workhouses did nothing to alleviate people's hardships. Dickens was simply unlucky, and his ill luck continued when he grew up - not professionally, but in his private life, even if he was unbelievably famous, appreciated and even wealthy.