Charles John Huffam Dickens was born on 7 February 1812 until 9 June 1870.
He was an English writer and social critic.
He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era.
His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime,
and by the twentieth-century critics and scholars had recognized him as a literary genius.
His novels and short stories enjoy lasting popularity.