Dickenschronology1812BorninPortsmouth(February7)toJohnandElizabethDickens.1817FamilymovestoChatham,nearRochesterinKent.1821DickensbeginseducationatWilliamGiles'sSchool.Writesthetragedy,Misnar,theSultanofIndia.1822JohnDickenstransferredtoLondon(summer).FamilymovestoCamdenTown.1824JohnDickensimprisonedfordebtintheMarshalseaPrison(February20—May28).TheyoungCharlesDickensissenttoworkatWarren'sBlackingFactory(lateJanuary/earlyFebruary—June).1825AttendsWellingtonHouseAcademy.1827Familyevictedfornon-paymentofrates(March).DickensleavesschoolandbecomesaclerkatEllis&Blackmore,solicitors.1828-29LearnsshorthandandworksasafreelancereporteratDoctors'Commons.1830FallsinlovewithMariaBeadnell.1831-34Worksasaparliamentaryreporter.1832Considersacareerinactingbutfails,onaccountofillness,tokeephisappointmentforanauditionatCoventGardenTheatre.1833Publishesfirststory,"ADinneratPoplarWalk,"inTheMonthlyMagazine.1834BecomesreporterforTheMorningChronicle.MeetsCatherineHogarth(August).Publishesstoriesinvariousperiodicals.1836Collectspreviouslypublishedstoriesintohisfirstbook,SketchesbyBoz(FirstSeries,8February).MarriesCatherineHogarth(2April).SerializationofPickwickPapers(April1836—November1837).TheStrangeGentlemanproducedattheSt.James'sTheater(29September)followedbyTheVillageCoquettes(22December).SketchesbyBoz,SecondSeriespublished(17December).ResignsfromTheMorningChronicletoassumeeditorshipofBentley'sMiscellany.1837FirstnumberofBentley'sMiscellany(1January).Thefirstofhistenchildrenisborn(6January).Movesto48DoughtyStreet(April).DeathofMaryHogarth(7用心爱心专心May).FirstvisittoEurope(July).OliverTwistserializedinBentley's(February1837—April1839).1838EditsandpublishesMemoirsofJosephGrimaldi.NicholasNicklebyserialized(April1838—October1839).1839ResignseditorshipofBentley'sMiscellany(31January).1840SketchesofYoungCouples(10February).OldCuriosityShopserializedinMasterHumphrey'sClock(25April1840—6February1841).1841BarnabyRudgeserializedinMasterHumphrey'sClock(13February—27November).1842VisittoAmerica(January—June).AmericanNotespublished(19October).1843MartinChuzzlewitserialized(January1843—July1844).AChristmasCarolpublished(19December).1844LivesoneyearinItalywithhisfamily(fromJuly).TheChimespublished(16December).1845ReturnstoLondon.DirectsandactsinJonson'sEveryManinHisHumour.TheCricketontheHearthpublished(20December).Beginscompositionoftheautobiographicalfragment(c.1845—48).1846EditsTheDailyNews(21January—9February)andlivespartoftheyearinSwitzerlandandParis.PicturesfromItalypublished(18May).DombeyandSonserialized(October1846—April1848).1848TheHauntedManpublished(19December).1849DavidCopperfieldserialized(May1849—November1850).1850FoundsandeditstheweeklyjournalHouseholdWords(untilMay1859).1851DickensfamilymovestoTavistockHouse(November).1852BleakHouseserialized(March1852—September1853).1854HardTimesserialzedinHouseholdWords(1April—12August).1855MeetsMariaBeadnell(nowMrs.Winter)again.LivesinParis(October1855—April1856).LittleDorritserialized(December1855—June1857).1856PurchasesGad'sHillPlace,nearRochesterinKent.1857DirectsandactsinWilkieCollins'sTheFrozenDeep.MeetsEllenTernan.用心爱心专心1858Giveshisfirstpublicreadingsforprofit(29April—22July).LegalseparationfromCatherine(May).Firstprovincialreadingtour(2August—13November).1859FoundsandeditsAlltheYearRound.ATaleofTwoCitiesserializedinthenewweeklyjournal(30April—26November).1860GreatExpectationsserializedinAlltheYearRound(1December—3August1861).1864OurMutualFriendserialized(May1864—November1865).1865Staplehursttrainwreck(9June).Dickenssustainsminorinjuriesandlong-lastingtrauma.1867Americanreadingtour(November1867—April1868).1870TwelvefarewellreadingsinLondon(January).ReceivedbyQueenVictoria(9March).BeginsserializingTheMysteryofEdwinDrood(April).DiesonJune9thatGad'sHillofacerebralhemorrhage.用心爱心专心
