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 * Charles Dickens:**


 * Charles Dickens was the most popular English novelist of the Victorian Era and one of the most influential of all time.
 * Charles John Huffam Dickens was born on February 7, 1812 at Landport, Portsmouth, England, the son of John and Elizabeth Dickens.
 * John Dickens was a clerk in the Naval Pay Office.
 * He had a poor head for finances, and in 1824 found himself imprisoned for debt.
 * His wife and children, with the exception of Charles, who was put to work at Warren's Blacking Factory, joined him in the Marshalsea Prison.
 * He introduced realism literature, and wrote about the abuses and horrors of working conditions in factories.
 * When the family finances were put at least partly to rights and his father was released, Dickens at age twelve was already scarred psychologically by the experience.
 * He was further wounded by his mother's insistence that he continue to work at the factory. His father, however, rescued him from that fate, and between 1824 and 1827 Dickens was a day pupil at a school in London.
 * At age fifteen, he found employment as an office boy at an attorney's, while he studied shorthand at night.
 * He wrote several novels; some of his well-known works were called __Dombey__ //and// __Son__ __and Hard Times__ (in which he criticized selfish business leaders).
 * Working as a child in the factory haunted him all his life. He was very discrete with who he talked to about it; he only spoke to his wife and best friend. His dark, secret life became a well-known source, which contained a description of his terrible childhood experience as a worker in a warehouse, especially, in __ David Copperfield __ and in __Great Expectations__. [[image:http://www.alwaysebooks.co.uk/images/bookCovers/300x424/charles-dickens-david-copperfield-125.jpg width="270" height="366"]] [[image:great-expectations1.jpg width="225" height="360"]]
 * Through his novels, he raised public awareness about labor in the factories.
 * His work has been commended for its ability of to take legal action against the government, and for its variety of different personalities, by writers such as George Gissing and G.K. Chesterton, though the same characteristics have prompted others, such as Henry James and Virginia Woolf, to criticize him for sentimentality and implausibility.
 * Dickens became a free-lance reporter at Doctor's Commons Courts in 1829.
 * In 1834, still a newspaper reporter, he adopted soon to be famous pseudonym "Boz."
 * He met and became engaged to Catherine Hogarth in the year 1835.
 * In 1836, the first series of sketches by Boz was published, and Dickens was hired to write short texts to accompany a series of humorous sporting illustrations by Robert Seymour, a popular artist.
 * On April 2, 1836, Dickens married Catherine Hogarth, and during the same year, he became editor of Bentley's Miscellany, published the second series of Sketches by Boz , and met John Forster, who would become his closest friend and confidant as well as his first biographer.
 * His final public readings took place in London in 1870.
 * He suffered a stroke on June 8, 1870, at Gad's Hill, after a full day's work on __ Edwin Drood __, and died the next day.

Asciutto, Dave. “Pro Labor Philosophies.” Pascack Valley High School. Hillsdale, 5 Jan. 2010.

"Dickens: A Brief Biography." //The Victorian Web//. N.p., 12 Jan. 2010. Web. 12 Jan. 2010. .

• it was all about change in the civilization • reason and science formed the Age of Enlightenment -the people claimed power over their corrupt government • Robbes Pierre • King Louis the XVI • France was illegitimate and full of inequality • Old Regime social classes: • Actions: • united all three Estates against the monarchy • a parliamentary body to enact the people’s will • restricted the government • protected the rights of the individual people • the sovereignty belongs to the people (Rousseau) • king is no where mentioned in the document • the assembly was seizing power for itself • the National Assembly ran the nation • demanded justice under reasonable laws • Pierre demands increased freedom for the press • Storming of the Bastille
 * French Revolution:**
 * had a great appreciation for the King when he was a student
 * grew to become the rebel who took the throne down
 * not prepared to be king
 * claimed the throne during a bad economic time
 * Austria made and an alliance with France, so 15 year old Louis married 14 year old Marie Antoinette
 * First Estate
 * Second Estate
 * Third Estate
 * the bourgeoisie were the educated doctors, lawyers, and farmers
 * they wanted to gain power in society
 * Louis XVI calls an estate’s general meeting
 * Robbes Pierre and other enlightened thinkers made change and thought of new ideas to challenge the monarchy
 * the Estates all meet in a tennis court and decide to never stop meeting until there is a new constitution for their demands
 * created a National Assembly
 * made the Declaration of the Right of Man
 * a prison that was a den of torture for prisoners
 * housed weapons and ammunition
 * day of independence, July 14 1789, created the new flag of red white and blue
 * the people declared freedom

Kosch, Karen. "French Revolution." Pascack Valley High School. Hillsdale, 22 Dec. 2009.