Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens, (7 February 1812 - 9 June 1870), was one of the most popular English novelists of the Victorian era as well as a vigorous social campaigner.
Critics have championed Dickens's mastery of prose, his endless invention of unique, clever personalities, and his powerful social sensibilities, but fellow writers such as Henry James, and Virginia Woolf faulted his work for sentimentality, implausible occurrences, and grotesque characterizations.
The popularity of Dickens's novels and short stories has meant that they have never gone out of print. His most famous stories are A Christmas Carol, The Adventures of Oliver Twist, The Life and Adventires of Nicholas Nickleb, David Copperfield and many others.
Charles Dickens suffered from asthma his entire life. During his "Life Without Limits" he found that Opium was the one thing that could offer him some relief from his asthma, which was prescribed medicinally at the time to relieve asthma symptoms!
His grave is in London in the Poets' Corner of Westminster Abbey. The inscription on his tomb reads: "He was a sympathiser to the poor, the suffering, and the oppressed; and by his death, one of England's greatest writers is lost to the world."
A testimony to another "Life Without Limits".
