When the family fortunes improved, Charles went back to school, after which he became an office boy, a freelance reporter and finally an author. This three-month separation caused Charles much pain his experiences as a child alone in a huge city–cold, isolated with barely enough to eat–haunted him for the rest of his life. When he was condemned the Marshela Prison for unpaid debts, he unwisely agreed that Charles should stay in lodgings and continue working while the rest of the family joined him in jail. His father John Dickens, was a warmhearted but improvident man. At age eleven, Dickens was taken out of school and sent to work in London backing warehouse, where his job was to paste labels on bottles for six shillings a week. The second of eight children, he grew up in a family frequently beset by financial insecurity. Charles Dickens was born in a little house in Landport, Portsea, England, on February 7, 1812.
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