His family was in debt, so he was sen off to work in a boot blacking factory. He needed to save money because his father was in jail. (he was bailing him out, with the money he earned working at the factory)
Charles Dickens was around nine years old when he first attended William Giles' School in Chatham, Kent.
Charles Dickens attended William Giles's School when he was around nine years old.
Dickens was 9 yrs. old.
Charles Dickens was 12 when they moved to London
Charles Dickens first started school when he was 2 years old in the year of 1814.
Charles Dickens was 58 when he died of a stroke on the 9th June 1870.
Charles Dickens was 25 years old when he had his first child, Charles Culliford Boz Dickens, with his wife Catherine.
he was 18
Charles Dickens was 45 years old when he separated from his wife Catherine in 1858. Their marriage was annulled in 1870.
Charles Dickens father died at the age of seventy nine when he was in prison
Charles Dickens' father was John Dickens, born 1786, died 1851. He was a clerk in the Navy Pay Office in Portsmouth. He married Elizabeth (née Barrow, 1789-1863). John Dickens went to debt prison, but when his mother died, she left him some money and he used that to get released.
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