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 Charles Dickens: Born: February 7, 1812 Died: June 9, 1870
 * At age twelve Charles Dickens worked in a factory where he was paid only six shillings a week.
 * Charles found his experiences in the factory to be horrific.
 * Later in his life, Charles Dickens wrote about his experiences in factories in the books: //David Copperfield// (1848-1850) and //The Adventures of// //Oliver Twist//
 * At sixteen Dickens found work as a court room reporter.
 * Dickens wrote about what went on in the House of Commons to help promote the cause of parliamentary reform.
 * Charles Dicken's works include:
 * The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club
 * The Adventures of Oliver Twist
 * The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
 * The Old Curiosity Shop
 * Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty
 * A Christmas Carol
 * The Chimes
 * The Cricket on the Hearth
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The Battle of Life
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Dombey and Son
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">David Copperfield
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Bleak House
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Hard Times: For These Times
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Little Dorrit
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">A Tale of Two Cities
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Great Expectations
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Our Mutual Friend
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The Mystery of Edwin Drood

The French Revolution: Cody, David. "French Revolution." The Victorian Web. N.p., 10 Aug. 2007. Web. 12 Jan. 2010. <http://www.victorianweb.org/history/hist7.html>.
 * Began in 1789
 * Started with the meeting of the States General in May
 * On July 14 of that same year, the Bastille was stormed
 * The King attempted, unsuccessfully, to flee Paris for Varennes in June 1791.
 * The Legislative Assembly was replaced by the National convention in September 1792 after the Legislative assembly sat from October 1791 through September 1792.
 * The King was brought to trial in December of 1792, and executed on January 21, 1793.
 * The Committee of Public Safety and the Revolutionary Tribunal were instituted immediately after the execution of the King.
 * In January of 1793 the revolutionary government declared war on Britain
 * This was a war for world dominion which had been carried on since the beginning of the reign of William and Mary, and which would continue for another twenty-two years.
 * The Reign of Terror began in September of 1793 and lasted until the fall of Robespierre on July 27, 1794 (during which all enemies were ruthlessly exterminated).
 * Napoleon Buonaparte became Emperor in May of 1804.
 * The French Revolution was not only a crucial event considered in the context of Western history, but was also the single most crucial influence on British intellectual, philosophical, and political life in the nineteenth century.
 * In its early stages it portrayed itself as a triumph of the forces of reason over those of superstition and privilege
 * English radicals like Thomas Paine, William Godwin and William Blake, saw it as a symbolic act which presaged the return of humanity to the state of perfection from which it had fallen away
 * Some say, though, as it descended into the madness of the Reign of Terror, however, many who had initially greeted it with enthusiasm — Wordsworth and Coleridge, for example, had second thoughts.

Liukkonen, Petri. "Charles Dickens (1812-1870)." Books and Writers. N.p., n.d. Web. 12 Jan. 2010. <http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/dickens.htm>.