Charles Dickens' 200th birthday

February 07 is the 200th birthday of famous English novelist Charles Dickens (full name: Charles John Huffam Dickens alias Boz). Charles Dickens was born in 1812 and died in 1870. He was an outstanding and popular writer. His works are highly praised and admired by people world over for realism and urge for social reforms. Still his novels "Great Expectations" or "Hard Times" are taught in English literature courses of colleges and universities.
One of the striking features of Charles Dickens' literary career was that he started his career as a journalist. His first story "A Dinner at Poplar Walk" was published in the Monthly Magazine, a London periodical in 1833. Many of Dickens' works were published serially in monthly instalments and he used to create episodes as they were being serialised, which would put the readers in deep inquisitiveness for knowing what was happening in the following instalment. Dickens also worked as an editor of Bentley's Miscellany, from 1836 to 1839.
Dickens, who had to work during his childhood, was a voice against child labour. He also actively supported the abolition of slavery. Charles Dickens was not only a great author but a unique personality blessed with natural human values. I pay rich tribute to Charles Dickens on his 200th birthday!