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1、Dickens chronologyDickens chronology1812 Born in Portsmouth(February 7)to John andElizabeth Dickens.1817 Family moves to Chatham,near Rochesterin Kent.1821DickensbeginseducationatWilliamGiless School.Writes the tragedy,Misnar,theSultan of India.1822JohnDickenstransferredtoLondon(summer).Family moves

2、 to Camden Town.1824 John Dickens imprisoned for debt in theMarshalsea Prison(February 20 May 28).Theyoung Charles Dickens is sent to work at Warren sBlackingFactory(lateJanuary/earlyFebruaryJune).1825 Attends Wellington House Academy.1827 Family evicted for non-payment of rates(March).Dickens leave

3、s school and becomes a clerkat Ellis&Blackmore,solicitors.1828-29 Learns shorthand and works as afreelance reporter at Doctors Commons.1830 Falls in love with Maria Beadnell.1831-34 Works as a parliamentary reporter.1832 Considers a career in acting but fails,onaccount of illness,to keep his appoint

4、ment for anaudition at Covent Garden Theatre.1833 Publishes first story,A Dinner at PoplarWalk,in The Monthly Magazine.1834 Becomes reporter for The Morning Chronicle.MeetsCatherineHogarth(August).Publishesstories in various periodicals.1836 Collects previously published storiesinto his first book,S

5、ketches by Boz(First Series,8 February).Marries Catherine Hogarth(2 April).SerializationofPickwickPapers(April1836November1837).TheStrangeGentlemanproduced at the St.Jamess Theater(29 September)followed by The Village Coquettes(22 December).Sketches by Boz,Second Series published(17December).Resigns

6、 from The Morning Chronicle toassume editorship of Bentleys Miscellany.1837 First number of Bentleys Miscellany(1January).The first of his ten children is born(6January).Moves to 48 Doughty Street(April).Death of Mary Hogarth(7 May).First visit toEurope(July).OliverTwistserializedinBentleys(February

7、 1837April 1839).1838 Edits and publishes Memoirs of JosephGrimaldi.Nicholas Nickleby serialized(April1838October 1839).1839ResignseditorshipofBentleysMiscellany(31 January).1840 Sketches of Young Couples(10 February).Old Curiosity Shop serialized in Master HumphreysClock(25 April 1840 6 February 18

8、41).1841BarnabyRudgeserializedinMasterHumphreys Clock(13 February27 November).1842VisittoAmerica(JanuaryJune).American Notes published(19 October).1843 Martin Chuzzlewit serialized(January1843July 1844).A Christmas Carol published(19December).1844 Lives one year in Italy with his family(from July).T

9、he Chimes published(16 December).1845 Returns to London.Directs and acts inJonsons Every Man in His Humour.The Cricket ontheHearthpublished(20December).Beginscomposition of the autobiographical fragment(c.184548).1846EditsTheDailyNews(21January9February)and lives part of the year in Switzerlandand P

10、aris.Pictures from Italy published(18 May).Dombey and Son serialized(October 1846 April1848).1848 The Haunted Man published(19 December).1849DavidCopperfieldserialized(May1849November 1850).1850FoundsandeditstheweeklyjournalHousehold Words(until May 1859).1851 Dickens family moves to Tavistock House

11、(November).1852BleakHouseserialized(March1852September 1853).1854 Hard Times serialzed in Household Words(1April12 August).1855 Meets Maria Beadnell(now Mrs.Winter)again.Lives in Paris(October 1855April 1856).Little Dorrit serialized(December 1855June1857).1856PurchasesGadsHillPlace,nearRochester in

12、 Kent.1857 Directs and acts in Wilkie Collinss TheFrozen Deep.Meets Ellen Ternan.1858 Gives his first public readings for profit(29April22July).LegalseparationfromCatherine(May).First provincial reading tour(2August 13 November).1859 Founds and edits All the Year Round.A Taleof Two Cities serialized

13、 in the new weekly journal(30 April26 November).1860 Great Expectations serialized in All theYear Round(1 December 3 August 1861).1864OurMutualFriendserialized(May1864November 1865).1865 Staplehurst train wreck(9 June).Dickenssustains minor injuries and long-lasting trauma.1867Americanreadingtour(November1867April 1868).1870TwelvefarewellreadingsinLondon(January).Received by Queen Victoria(9 March).Begins serializing The Mystery of Edwin Drood(April).Dies on June 9th at Gads Hill of acerebral hemorrhage.