![]() ![]() Always fascinated by crime, Dickens acquired knowledge of Norfolk Island from his friend Alexander Maconochie. The infamous Mr Squeers in Nicholas Nickleby is similarly sent to the colony. ![]() At first aware of Australia only as a place of penal servitude, Dickens in Pickwick Papers has the convict, John Edmunds, transported and sent up country as a shepherd. As novelist, journalist, public speaker and social critic, his popularity was universal and the world of his novels changed contemporary attitudes. Pickwick parties were held as far apart as Canada and Kangaroo Island, whilst the first pirated edition of Pickwick Papers was printed by Henry Dowling of Tasmania in 1838.įame was assured for Dickens with the publication of Oliver Twist in 1838 and Nicholas Nickleby in 1839. Sam Weller and Mr Pickwick created a world-wide furore and Dickens's imitators were legion. Sketches by 'Boz', Dickens's pseudonym, were published in two volumes in 1836 and The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club in 1837. First apprenticed to the law, he began writing unpaid pieces for popular journals. Dickens received intermittent schooling and indifferent care from his parents who were once obliged to take up residence in Marshalsea prison for debt. ![]() Wilson & Co., 1870sĬharles Dickens (1812-1870), novelist, was born on 7 February 1812 in Portsmouth, England, son of John Dickens, a clerk in the Navy Pay Office, and his wife Elizabeth, née Barrow. ![]()
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