Having been a journalist, I imagine Dickens would have had a habit of carrying a notebook to collect the ideas he had going around in his head and to describe the people he met. If cameras had been invented, he might very well have become a photojournalist, so in love he was with capturing […]
Read More...Charles Dickens was born in Portsmouth, England, on February 7th, in 1812. He loved reading and had a positive childhood. John Dickens, his father, was a Navy Pay Officer, making a good wage. Despite this, the family was poor because of overspending and incurring a lot of debt. By the time Charles Dickens was […]
Read More...Picture above – Coal miners Child labor was especially common in the late 18th century, during the early years of the Industrial Revolution. The cities were overcrowded with people looking for work in the newly developed factories and mines. Poor sanitation, disease and pollution made them miserable places to live. Workers barely made enough […]
Read More...William Wilberforce was not the only person who developed a passion that he felt called to pursue. Every individual whose story is featured in this series had something they felt strongly about. And each of them was different from the others. For Wilberforce it was slavery. And for the next person we will look at—Charles […]
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