Charles Dickens
Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic. Dickens's literary success began with the 1836 serial publication of The Pickwick Papers. Within a few years Dickens had become an international literary celebrity. His novels, most of them published in monthly or weekly instalments, pioneered the serial publication of narrative fiction. Masses of the illiterate poor would individually pay a halfpenny to have each new monthly episode read to them, opening up and inspiring a new class of readers.
