![]() ![]() The same year, he married Catherine Hogarth, with whom he would have nine children. In 1836, a collection of his stories, Sketches by Boz, later known as The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, was published. In his late teens, Dickens became a reporter and started publishing humorous short stories when he was 21. The miserable treatment of children and the institution of the debtors’ jail became topics of several of Dickens’ novels. ![]() ![]() His father, a clerk in the navy pay office, was thrown into debtors’ prison in 1824, and 12-year-old Charles was sent to work in a factory. On December 19, 1843, Charles Dickens’ classic story “A Christmas Carol” is published.ĭickens was born in 1812 and attended school in Portsmouth. ![]()
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