3. CHARLES JOHN HUFFAM
DICKENS
7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870.
English writer and social critic
the greatest novelist of the Victorian period.
orn in Portsmouth.
ickens left school to work in a factory
after his father was thrown into debtors' prison.
lizabeth Dickens, 8 children
4. MAJOR TOPICS
he story deals with two of Dickens' recurrent
themes, social injustice and poverty.
crooge embodies selfishness and indifference to
the poor.