Dickens was taken out of school aged 11 to work in a London blacking factory as his father sank into debt
It was an experience that ruptured his childhood but shaped his life’s work. Two hundred years ago, 11-year-old
A few months later, John Dickens, Charles’s father, was arrested and imprisoned for three months in the Marshalsea debtors’ prison in Borough. A letter from John Dickens to the politician Joseph Parkes with an urgent request for work for his son.“The blacking factory … was a crazy, tumbledown old house, abutting of course on the river, and literally overrun with rats.
Charles Dickens’s relationship with his parents was damaged for life after they sent him to work in the factory.The second was written in 1843, when Dickens was an established and indeed famous author, to ask Charles’s publisher Chapman & Hall to send him a copy of his son’s forthcoming book, American Notes.
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