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Podcast: CraftLit
Episode: 12 Days of CraftLit - Eleventh Day
Description: Originally released December 24, 2017 Eleventh Day… (Find all the days here) Thank you Librivox.org. Charles Dickens (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's most memorable fictional characters and is generally regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian period. During his life, his works enjoyed unprecedented fame, and by the twentieth century his literary genius was broadly acknowledged by critics and scholars. His novels and short stories continue to be widely popular. Born in Portsmouth, England, Dickens left school to work in a factory after his father was thrown into debtors' prison. Alth...