Charles Dickens was born on 7th Febuary, 1812 in Portsmoth. His father went to prisom so that is why he worked in a shoe paolish factory when he was only 12 years old. Best-known boorksare Littled Dorit(1857), David Copperfield(1850) and Oliver Twist(1839). He died on 8th June in 1870.