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Celebrating Writers Born In February
February might be the time of the year we celebrate romance, but it also happens to be the month that many of your favourite writers entered the world.
To celebrate, let’s look at some February babies who have left an indelible mark on the world of literature.
Charles Dickens (7 February 1812)
Charles Dickens might be ‘the man who invented Christmas,’ but he was born in the month Clive Barker described as ‘The great grey beast February.’ Born in Portsmouth, Hampshire, the young Dickens was the second of eight children born to Elizabeth and John Dickens.
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Dickens grew up in an impoverished household, with his father ending up in Marshalsea debtor’s Prison. The then 12-year-old Charles was sent to work at a boot blacking factory – an autobiographical detail Dickens later brought to life in David Copperfield.
Despite becoming one of the most prolific and influential writers of the Victorian period, Dickens’s bleak start in life inspired much of
