the life of charles dickens, a

As a member of one of the lower classes as a child Dickens had dreams of comfortable middle class life, and worked for this goal without forgetting where he came from. Dickens was the first mainstream writer to reach out to the semiliterate class. He did much to make sure his writings were available to the middle class. He published serial novels on monthly bases. One shilling (one twentieth of a pound) would buy you …

…Dickens was a humanitarian who brought his literature to the middle class and kept it there, his public readings were always for non-profit and he was a thespian. His early life was the main reason for this development. His parents abandonment and his job at the shoe blackening factory shaped his views on society and allowed him the versatility to write his novels, a nod papers with the middle and lower class society in mind.