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Great Expectations

Great Expectations. By Charles Dickens. Charles Dickens. February 7, 1812 – June 9, 1870. Dickens was born in Hampshire. When he was five, the family moved to Kent. When he was ten, the family relocated to Camden Town in London.

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Great Expectations

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  1. Great Expectations By Charles Dickens

  2. Charles Dickens February 7, 1812 – June 9, 1870 • Dickens was born in Hampshire. • When he was five, the family moved to Kent. • When he was ten, the family relocated to Camden Town in London. • His early years were a peaceful time. He thought himself then as a “very small and not-over-particularly-taken-care-of boy.”

  3. Dickens had extremely strong memories of childhood and his continuing photographic memory of people and events helped bring his fiction to life. • His family was moderately well-off, and he received some education at a private school, but all that changed when his father was imprisoned for debt.

  4. At the age of twelve, Dickens worked ten hours a day in a boot-blacking factory. • He spent his time pasting labels on the jars of thick polish and earned six shillings a week. With this money, he had to pay for his lodging and help to support his family.

  5. Dickens began work as a law clerk with potential to become a lawyer. • He did not like the law as a profession and after a short time as a court stenographer he became a journalist. • His journalism formed his first collection of pieces Sketches by Boz and he continued to contribute to and edit journals for much of his life. • In his early twenties he made a name for himself with his first novel, The Pickwick Papers.

  6. Great Expectations • Dickens wrote and published Great Expectations in 1860-1861. • The novel looks back to an earlier time (1812-1840) • The period of composition itself is noteworthy. • Great Expectations is a Victorian novel that looks back upon a period of pre-Victorian development that had become, by 1860, thoroughly historical.

  7. LESSON Victorian vs. Pre-Victorian (i.e. Romantic)

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