Learn about Charles Dickens' youth and this great novelist of the Victorian Era's family struggles with debt prison.
Learn about the youth of Charles Dickens, the great Novelist of the Victorian Era, and his family's struggles with debt and debt prison and how as a young child, Charles Dickens was forced to work in a factory, scarring him for life. From the "Biography: Charles Dickens - A Dickensian Childhood" video.
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