I was surfing in Google just for naught and I found something interesting. I found many "Charles" in there. So I got this idea. I will tell about some of the people named "Charles" I found. By the way, the name "Charles" originate from common Germanic term 'Churl', used to indicate free man, but not the one belonging to noble family.
Here the first, you have mention his name today in our class, Sir. The name Charles Dickens. His full name is Charles John Huffam Dickens. Acclaimed as one of history's greatest novelist. His famous works were 'Oliver Twist', A Christmas Carol', 'A Tale of Two Cities, and 'David Copperfield'. He was born on 7 Feb 1812 in Landport, Portsmouth, Hampshire, England (now the Dickens Birthplace Museum). He is the second from 8 children (the first is Frances, followed by Alfred Allen, Letitia Mary, Harriet, Frederick William, Alfred Lamert, and Augustus Newnham) of John Dickens , a clerk in the Navy Pay Office at Portsmouth, and his wife, Elizabeth nee Barrow. His father once imprison in Marshalsea Prison (for debtor only) because of a debt but released by inheritance from Charles's grandmother, Elizabeth Dickens. Because his father was in prison and all the family followed John except Charles, he had to work in a shoe factory to support the family. After his father released, he go to Wellington House Academy in North London. But his mother insist that he go on working. This made Charles's childhood live unhappy (which give him idea to make autobiographical novel, David Copperfield). He started to work in the law office of Ellis and Blackmore as an articled clerk. When he was 17, he became a court stenographer (a person who write quickly with symbols to record people's words). Met his first love, Maria Beadnell, but ended because Maria's parents sent her to school in Paris. After that he became a political journalist in Morning Chronicle. In March 1836, he make the serial of his first novel, 'The Pickwick Papers'. On 2 Apr 1836, he married Catherine Thompson Hogarth, the daughter of his friend, George Hogarth, editor of the Evening Chronicle, in St. Luke in Chelsea. Set up home in Bloomsbury and had 10 children (the first is Charles Culliford Boz, later known as Charles Dickens Jr., the author of Dicken's Dictionary of London, followed by Mary Angela, Kate Macready, Walter Landor, Francis Jeffrey, Alfred D'Orsay Tennyson, Sydney Smith Haldimand , (Sir) Henry Fielding, Dora Annie, and Edward Bulwer Lytton who became a member of New South Wales state parliament (all thier surname are Dickens)). Catherine younger sister, Mary, offer to support the household. Charles became attached to Mary, but she died in the age of 17 in Charles's arms because of illness (she become a character in many Charles's books). He died on 9 June 1890 in Gad's Hill Place, Higham, Kent, England. A place where he bought a big house to live in and also has a scene of some events from Shakespeare's Henry IV , which pleased him.
Ok, that is the first "Charles". If you have any request(s) on some "Charles", please notify me and I will try to seek them. Feel free to post other "Charles" if you want. Thank you for reading.
Here the first, you have mention his name today in our class, Sir. The name Charles Dickens. His full name is Charles John Huffam Dickens. Acclaimed as one of history's greatest novelist. His famous works were 'Oliver Twist', A Christmas Carol', 'A Tale of Two Cities, and 'David Copperfield'. He was born on 7 Feb 1812 in Landport, Portsmouth, Hampshire, England (now the Dickens Birthplace Museum). He is the second from 8 children (the first is Frances, followed by Alfred Allen, Letitia Mary, Harriet, Frederick William, Alfred Lamert, and Augustus Newnham) of John Dickens , a clerk in the Navy Pay Office at Portsmouth, and his wife, Elizabeth nee Barrow. His father once imprison in Marshalsea Prison (for debtor only) because of a debt but released by inheritance from Charles's grandmother, Elizabeth Dickens. Because his father was in prison and all the family followed John except Charles, he had to work in a shoe factory to support the family. After his father released, he go to Wellington House Academy in North London. But his mother insist that he go on working. This made Charles's childhood live unhappy (which give him idea to make autobiographical novel, David Copperfield). He started to work in the law office of Ellis and Blackmore as an articled clerk. When he was 17, he became a court stenographer (a person who write quickly with symbols to record people's words). Met his first love, Maria Beadnell, but ended because Maria's parents sent her to school in Paris. After that he became a political journalist in Morning Chronicle. In March 1836, he make the serial of his first novel, 'The Pickwick Papers'. On 2 Apr 1836, he married Catherine Thompson Hogarth, the daughter of his friend, George Hogarth, editor of the Evening Chronicle, in St. Luke in Chelsea. Set up home in Bloomsbury and had 10 children (the first is Charles Culliford Boz, later known as Charles Dickens Jr., the author of Dicken's Dictionary of London, followed by Mary Angela, Kate Macready, Walter Landor, Francis Jeffrey, Alfred D'Orsay Tennyson, Sydney Smith Haldimand , (Sir) Henry Fielding, Dora Annie, and Edward Bulwer Lytton who became a member of New South Wales state parliament (all thier surname are Dickens)). Catherine younger sister, Mary, offer to support the household. Charles became attached to Mary, but she died in the age of 17 in Charles's arms because of illness (she become a character in many Charles's books). He died on 9 June 1890 in Gad's Hill Place, Higham, Kent, England. A place where he bought a big house to live in and also has a scene of some events from Shakespeare's Henry IV , which pleased him.
Ok, that is the first "Charles". If you have any request(s) on some "Charles", please notify me and I will try to seek them. Feel free to post other "Charles" if you want. Thank you for reading.
Source : www.wikipedia.com and www.online-literature.com
1 comment:
Wow, interesting research. I know some things about Dickens after studying him in school, but not all those fascinating details.
Thanks!
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