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Charles Dickens was born on 7th February 1812, in Landport, a district of Portsmouth, where his father John Dickens worked as a clerk in the Navy Pay Office. In 1817 the family moved to Chatham near the river Medway in Kent where Charles enjoyed a happy childhood in the region of Rochester and the surrounding riverside and country of the marshes.
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Butts, D. (1985). Charles Dickens: Life and Background. In: Great Expectations by Charles Dickens. Macmillan Master Guides. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-07478-5_1
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