After his return to England, Dickens became the editor of a London newspaper and, after purchasing a house in Kent, wrote several more successful novels. Dickens gained a wide audience in Britain and America and traveled to the United States with his wife, Caroline Hogarth, in 1842. Dickens’s decision to publish his novels in short installments over a long period of time-so that poor readers could purchase cheap periodicals instead of an expensive novel-became extremely popular among Victorian readers. His first novel, The Pickwick Papers, was published in serial form soon after this initial success. He was an extremely ambitious young man and quickly became successful for his political cartoons published in London periodicals. When Dickens was 20, he embarked on a career in journalism. This experience of child labor stayed with him and became a prominent theme in many of his novels. Dickens was 12 at the time, and while the rest of the family accompanied his father to jail, Dickens was sent to work in a blacking-warehouse. Dickens’s education was cut short when his father was sent to debtor’s prison. His family moved to London and lived in various parts of the city throughout his early life. Charles Dickens was born in Portsmouth, a town in Hampshire, England, in 1812.
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