Charles Dickens was really really happy when his father ws released from prison.
Charles Dickens' father, John Dickens, had financial troubles and was imprisoned for debt when Charles was a child. This experience greatly influenced Charles Dickens and is reflected in his writings, particularly in the themes of poverty and social injustice. John Dickens was eventually released from prison, but their family continued to face financial difficulties.
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Charles Dickens' father had a relative who died. The relative left lots of money for them in his will.
Charles Dickens father died at the age of seventy nine when he was in prison
he got put in prison for being in debt
Well, honey, Charles Dickens was just a wee lad of 12 when his dear old dad landed himself in the slammer. Daddy dearest got himself into some financial trouble and ended up behind bars, leaving young Charles to fend for himself and start working in a boot-blacking factory. And that, my friend, is the not-so-fairy-tale beginning of one of the greatest literary legends of all time.
His dad went to one part of a prison that was meant for extremely poor people, so it really isn't a "prison." His life at the prison was probably better than life outside the prison because in the prison, he could actually eat food, and have the basic needs.
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 did not get into debt. However his farther John Dickens did. He was sent to prison (for not paying it of) when Charles was 12 years of age!John died in 1851.
After Charles Dickens' father was imprisoned for debt, his mother and siblings went to live with him in debtor's prison. This experience had a profound impact on Dickens and heavily influenced his later writings on poverty and social injustice.
When Charles Dickens was twelve years old his father John Dickens (having failed to pay the family's debts) was sent briefly to marshalsea debtor's prison in London.During his fathers imprisonment young Charles was sent to work in a rat infested blacking factory.