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The family removed to London in 1816, and in 1817 to Chatham. It was here that the happiest years of Dickens’s childhood were spent. They returned to London in 1822, but their fortunes were severely impaired. Dickens was withdrawn from school, and in 1824, sent to work in a blacking warehouse managed by a relative when his father was imprisoned for debt. Both experiences deeply affected the future novelist. Once his father’s financial position improved, however, Dickens returned to school, leaving at the age of 15 to become in turn a solicitor’s clerk, a shorthand reporter in the law courts, and a parliamentary reporter. In 1833 he began contributing stories to newspapers and magazines, later reprinted as Sketches by Boz, and in 1836 started the serial publication of Pickwick Papers. Before Pickwick had completed its run, Dickens, as editor of Bentley’s Miscellany, had also begun the serialization of Oliver Twist (1837–8) . In April 1836 he married Catherine Hogarth, who bore him ten children between 1837 and 1852. Finding serial publication both congenial and profitable, Dickens published Nicholas Nickleby (1838–9) in monthly parts, and The Old Curiosity Shop (1840–1) and Barnaby Rudge (1841) in weekly instalments. He visited America in 1842, publishing his observations as American Notes on his return and including an extensive American episode in Martin Chuzzlewit (1842–4) . The first of the five Christmas Books, A Christmas Carol, appeared in 1843 and the travel-book, Pictures from Italy, in 1846. The carefully planned Dombey and Son was serialized in 1846–8, to be followed in 1849–50 by Dickens’s ‘favourite child’, the semi-autobiographical David Copperfield. Then came Bleak House (1852–3), Hard Times (1854), and Little Dorrit (1855–7) . Dickens edited and regularly contributed to the journals Household Words (1850–9) and All the Year Round (1859–70) . A number of essays from the journals were later collected as Reprinted Pieces (1858) and The Uncommercial Traveller (1861) . Dickens had acquired a country house, Gad’s Hill near Rochester, in 1855 and he was separated from his wife in 1858. He returned to historical fiction in A Tale of Two Cities (1859) and to the use of a first-person narrator in Great Expectations (1860–1), both of which were serialized in All the Year Round. The last completed novel, Our Mutual Friend, was published in 1864–5. Edwin Drood was left unfinished at Dickens’s death on 9 June 1870.  \nMargaret Cardwell was, until retirement, Reader in English at the Queen’s University, Belfast.  \nRobert Douglas-Fairhurst is Fellow and Tutor in English at Magdalen College, University of Oxford. He is the editor of A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Books for Oxford World’s Classics.  \noxford world ’ s classics  \nFor over 100 years Oxford World’s Classics have brought readers closer to the world’s great literature. Now with over 700 titles––from the 4,000-year-old myths of Mesopotamia to the twentieth century’s greatest novels––the series makes available lesser-known as well as celebrated writing.  \nThe pocket-sized hardbacks of the early years contained introductions by Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, Graham Greene, and other literary figures which enriched the experience of reading. Today the series is recognized for its fine scholarship and reliability in texts that span world literature, drama and poetry, religion, philosophy and politics. Each edition includes perceptive commentary and essential background information to meet the changing needs of readers.  \nOXFORD WORLD’S CLASSICS  \nCHARLES DICKENS  \nGreat Expectations  \nEdited by  \nMARGARET CARDWELL  \nWith an Introduction and Notes by  \nROBERT DOUGLAS-FAIRHURST  \n1  \n3  \nGreat Clarendon Street, Oxford ox2 6dp Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. 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