Part one of term paper
Charles Dickens was born on February 7, 1812, and spent the first nine years of his life living in Kent, a marshy region by the sea in the west of England. Dickens' father John was a kind and likable man, but he was incompetent with money and piled up tremendous debts throughout his life. When Dickens was nine, his family moved to London; whe ...

Part two of term paper
... he spent apart from his family were highly traumatic for Dickens, and his job was a misery--he considered himself too good for it, earning the contempt of the other children. After his father was released from prison, Dickens returned to school; he eventually became a law clerk, then a court reporter, then a novelist. His first novel, The Pickwick Papers, became a huge popular success when Dickens was only twenty-five, and he was a literary celebrity throughout England for the rest of his life. Man ...