Great Expectations. This essay will explore how this novel represents childhood in the Victorian era.

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This essay will explore how this novel represents childhood in Victorian era.

Charles dickens

Charles John Huffam Dickens was born on 7th of February 1812. He married at the age of 25 and had 10 children. He worked in a factory to help support his family as a child. He wrote over 30 different stories.

His pen-name "Boz", was the most popular English novelist of the Victorian era and one of the most popular of all time. He created some of literature's most memorable characters. His novels and short stories have never gone out of print. A concern with what he saw as the pressing need for social reform is a theme that runs throughout his work.

Most of his work first appeared in periodicals and magazines in serialised form, a favoured way of publishing fiction at the time. Other writers of the time would complete entire novels before serial publication commenced, but Dickens often wrote his in parts, in the order in which they were meant to appear.

 The practice lent his stories a particular rhythm, punctuated by one cliffhanger after another to keep the public eager for the next instalment. Critics and fellow-novelists such as George Gissing and G. K. Chesterton have applauded Dickens for his mastery of prose, and for his teeming gallery of unique characters, many of whom have acquired iconic status in the English-speaking world. Others such as Henry James and Virginia Woolf have accused him of sentimentality and implausibility. He died on the 9th of June 1870.

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About the novel……..

Great expectations is about an orphan boy called pip who lived with his sister Mrs Joe gargery and her husband Joe gargery who lives beside a churchyard. During those times there were major issues with the way the children were living. The book is aimed to show how life was in the Victorian era. It explains how difficult people were living especially children. The Victorian era wasn’t a good place to live in.

In the story pip gives the convict (magwicth) some food because he was hungry. After he gave the convict the ...

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