Dickens in New York, 1868 |Born||Charles John Huffam Dickens 7
February 1812 Landport, Portsmouth, Hampshire, England |Died||9
June 1870 Gad's Hill Place, Higham, |Resting place||Poets'
Corner, Westminster Abbey| |Notable work(s)||The Pickwick
Papers, Oliver Twist, A Christmas Carol, David Copperfield,
Bleak House, Hard Times, A Tale of Two Cities, Great
Expectations| |Spouse(s)||Catherine Thomson Hogarth|
|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, and Edward Dickens| Charles John Huffam
Dickens (pron.: / /; 7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an
English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's
most memorable fictional characters and is generally regarded as
the greatest novelist of the Victorian period. During his life,
his works enjoyed unprecedented fame, and by the twentieth
century his literary genius was broadly acknowledge