Charles Dickens was born on February 7, 1812 in Portsmouth, the second of John Dicken's eight children. In 1823, the Dickens family moved to London with the hopes of bettering their financial situation, but the family's plight quicly worsened. Charles only twelve years old went to work in a blacking factory to help his family when his father was put in jail for debt, and the whole family except Charles moved into
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