Labels:bulletin board | person | reckoner | sky OCR: ickens Charles: 11812 1870) World -renowned English novelist who rose from impoverishment ta acclaim After working in a blacking warehouse and is8 shorthand stenogra pher Dickens successfully serialized his fiction in monthly magazines His tales of life in the slums and tenements of I London eamed hinm such an enornmous readership that the author was uaas courted by publishers and celebrities of the literary world Despite financial success Dickens remained committed to sacial causes like the abolition of slavery and relief for the poor Van Gogh admired Dickens and while living ir London, read many fhis books Dickens's novels sharpened the artist's social conscience and inspired him to minister ta the Borin miners in Belgium. 1812 enements enomaus eadership Beleium