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Charles Dickens needs no formal intro, having been the most popular English author of the 19th hundred years but still being one of the very most popular freelance writers today. Dickens' upbringing was an assortment of happy times and sad: when he recalled his dad being delivered to debtor's prison in his memoirs, his tears actually still left marks on the page. His childhood experience eventually forged him in to the man many respect as the greatest Victorian age novelist - the author of remarkable imaginary characters who preserve tremendous stamina even today, including Fagin, Peepy, David Copperfield, and Oliver Twist, to mention just a few. Unlike other great freelance writers and music artists, during his own life-time Dickens' works loved remarkable reputation and renown, to this magnitude that even Queen Victoria and Primary Minister Benjamin Disraeli felicitated and feted Dickens. Inside the 20th hundred years, well after Dickens' passing, his literary genius was truly and completely valued by ordinary viewers as well as critics and scholars. Dickens' novels, novellas, and brief stories preserve powerful and long lasting popularity among the general public, mainly because Dickens linked history with the present through widespread bridges.