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Charles Dickens

Born on February 7, 1812

214

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Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and journalist. He created some of literature's best-known fictional characters, and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era.

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