Dickens became a professional actor in 1832. In 1833 he began contributing stories and descriptive essays to magazines and newspapers; In february 1836, he was invited to provide a comic serial narrative to accompany drawing of a well-known artist; seven weeks later the first installment of The Pickwick Papers appeared.
Within a few months, Pickwick was very famous and Dickens the most popular author of the year.
Charles Dickens died at home on June 9, 1870, after suffering a stroke. Contrary to his wish to be buried in Rochester Cathedral, he was buried in the Poets' Corner of Westminster Abbey.
He began his literary career as a journalist. His own father became a reporter and Charles began with the journals 'The Mirror of Parliament' and 'The True Sun'. Then in 1833, he became a parliamentary journalist for The Morning Chronicle.
His literary career
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