CHARLES DICKENS : Dickens was born on 7 February 1812 in Landport district, belonging to the city of Portsmouth, son of John Dickens (1786-1851), clerk of the paymaster of the navy arsenal in the port of Portsmouth, and its wife Elizabeth Dickens née Barrow (1789-1863). In 1814, the family moved to London, Somerset House, at number ten on Norfolk Street. When the future writer was five, the family moved to Chatham, Kent. His mother was middle class and his father always sneak fingers, due to its excessive inclination to waste. He received no education until the age of nine years, which critics later reproached him for keeping a fairly self-training. At this age, after attending a school in Rome Lane, a student at the school of William Giles, a graduate of Oxford, TURE, spending time outdoors, reading voraciously and showing a particular fondness for the picaresque novels such as The Adventures of Roderick Random and The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle by Tobias Smollett and Henry Fielding's Tom Jones, who was his favorite writer, and adventure novels like Robinson Crusoe and Don Quixote. In 1823, he reunites with his family back in London, at number 16 Bayham Street, Camden Town, which was then one of the poorest suburbs of the city. Although his early years seem to have been an idyllic time, he was described as "a very young child and not especially careful." Then talk about the extreme pathos and photographic memory of people and events that helped bring his fiction to realidad.3