Charles Dickens

Portrait by Jeremiah Gurney, c. 1867–1868

Born Charles John Huffam Dickens

7 February 1812

Portsmouth, England

Died 9 June 1870 (aged 58)

Higham, Kent, England

Resting place Poets' Corner, Westminster Abbey, England

51°29′57″N 00°07′39″W / 51.49917°N 0.12750°W

Occupation Writer

Notable works

The Pickwick Papers

Oliver Twist

Nicholas Nickleby

A Christmas Carol

David Copperfield

Bleak House

Little Dorrit

A Tale of Two Cities

Great Expectations

Spouse

Catherine Thomson Hogarth

(m. 1836; sep. 1858)

Partner Ellen Ternan (1857–1870, his death)

Children

Charles Dickens Jr.

Mary Dickens

Kate Perugini

Walter Landor Dickens

Francis Dickens

Alfred D'Orsay Tennyson Dickens

Sydney Smith Haldimand Dickens

Henry Fielding Dickens

Dora Annie Dickens

Edward Dickens

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