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Charles Dickens Born Portsmouth, England Feb 7, 1812 He spent most of his childhood in London Dickens wrote many Novels His Death June 9,1870 because of a stoke Charles had a slow but painful death Charles’s family was sad when he died His friends thought he died from his readings He asked to be buried in a inexpensive manner a private one His Wife Catherine (his wife) lived in a London house She died in 1879 She was born 1815 On April of 1836 she got married to Dickens His marriage Dickenss relationship with Maria Beadnell, the daughter of a banker, whom he had courted for four years, ended in 1833. Three years later Dickens married Catherine Hogart, the daughter of his friend George Hogarth, who edited the newly established Evening Chronicle. With Catherine he had 10 children. They separated in 1858. Some biographers have suspected that Dickens was more fond of Catherines sister, Mary, who moved into their house and died in 1837 at the age of 17 in Dickenss arms. Eventually she became the model for Dora Copperfield. Dickens also wanted to be buried next to her and wore Marys ring all his life. Another of Catherines sisters, Georgiana, moved in with the Dickenses, and the novelist fell in love with her. Dickens also had a long liaison with the actress Ellen Ternan, whom he had met by the late 1850s. His Children Dickens had seven children Their names were Charley, Sydney, Francis Henry, Alfred, Walter, and Plorn They were all close in age His birth place in Landport Dickenss delight in this celebrated sentence of the well-intentioned but often exasperating father, whose industry, the son maintained with affectionate loyalty, was always untiring. Dickenss feelings about his mother were much more ambivalent. Many of Dickenss following novels first appeared in monthly installments, including Oliver Twist (1837-39). It depicts the London underworld and hard years of the foundling Oliver Twist, whose right to his inheritance is kept secret b