LITERATURE QUESTIONS
MISCELLENEOUS QUESTIONS
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He sold all of the family’s belongings.
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He sold their home.
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He worked in a dark, rat-infested warehouse.
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All of these.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Charles, was forced to pawn his school books, was sent off to a workshop to help pay off his father’s debts. An inheritance saved the family though Dickens’ mother was adamantly opposed to his leaving work and forced him to stay there for long, unhappy months before he left to resume his studies.
Detailed explanation-2: -Aged 12, Dickens was sent to work at a boot-blacking factory when his father was imprisoned in Marshalsea debtors prison. His father owed £40-the same amount as Edward, Amy Dorrit’s brother.
Detailed explanation-3: -Described by his son Charles as “a jovial opportunist with no money sense", unable to satisfy his creditors, on 20 February 1824 John Dickens was imprisoned in the Marshalsea Debtors’ Prison under the Insolvent Debtors Act of 1813, because he owed a baker, James Kerr, £40 and 10 shillings.
Detailed explanation-4: -Charles Dickens’s father, John, was sent to the Marshalsea Prison in 1824 when Dickens was 12 years old. This period was to have a profound effect on Dickens’s writing career.
Detailed explanation-5: -February 7, 1812: Charles Dickens is born to John and Elizabeth Dickens. 1824: John Dickens arrested for his debts and sent to Marshalsea prison. A 12-year-old Charles Dickens is forced to work at Warren’s Blacking Factory pasting labels on shoe polish containers to provide for the family.