Dickens was a Victorian writer. To read his biography, have a look at these two links:
* Link 1
* Link 2
If you want to learn more about Victorian London, you can play this game.
Now your task. Answer the following questions:
1. Where was he born?
2. What did he write?
3. How old was he when he died?
1.He was born in Portsmouth on 7 February 1812,
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3.died when he was 58 years.
Just a clue, Irene, in question 2 you should write his novels and other works.
Delete1.He was born in Portsmouth on 7 February 1812.
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3.He died when he was 58 years old.
Just a clue, Eugenia. In question 2 you should write his novels and other works.
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ReplyDelete1. Where was he born?
Charles John Huffam Dickens (Portsmouth, England, February 7, 1812 - Gads Hill Place, England, June 9, 1870)
2. What did he write?
was a famous English novelist, one of the best known in world literature, and the chief of the Victorian era. He was master of the genre narrative, which printed a certain dose of humor and irony, playing both an acute social criticism. In his work include descriptions of people and places, both real and imagined. Sometimes used the pseudonym Boz.
3. How old was he when he died?
On June 9, 1865, while returning from France to see Ellen Ternan, Dickens had an accident, the famous Staplehurst rail crash in which the first seven train cars fell from a bridge was being repaired. The only first-class carriage that fell was the one where he was Dickens. The novelist spent much time tending to the wounded and dying before rescuers arrivedFive years after the accident, on June 9, 1870, died the day after suffering a stroke, without ever regaining consciousness. Against his desire to be buried in Rochester Cathedral (the closest to your home), "on the cheap, unostentatious and strictly private", it was called 'Poets Corner' in Westminster Abbey, while sought privacidad.Circuló respect his desire to his death an epitaph printed in stating that "he was sympathetic to the poor, the miserable and oppressed, and with his death the world has lost one of the greatest writers English '. Dickens stated that not erect any monument in his honor, and the only life-size statue dates from 1981, was conducted by Francis Edwin Elwell, and is located in Clark Park, Philadelphia, in the United States. His big dream was to be free and got it as a writer and she was found dead June 9, 1870 (58 years)
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Charles John Huffam Dickens is born in Portsmouth, England, on February 7, 1812. He dies in Gads Hill Place, England, on June 9, 1870. He was a famous novelist Englishman, one of more acquaintances of the universal literature, and the principal one of the Victorian age. He was a teacher of the narrative kind, on which it stamped certain doses of humor and irony, practising simultaneously a sharp social critique. In his work stand out the descriptions of people and places, both royal and imaginary. There used in occasions the pseudonym Boz.
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