Charles Dickens was born on February 7, 1812 and died in 1870; Dickens was the most influential and popular English novelist of the Victorian era. He is even considered the most popular novelist of the 21st century. During Dickens' lifetime, he became well known internationally for his extraordinary characters, his mastery of prose to chronicle their lives, and his portrait of social classes. Some saw Dickens as the spokesperson for the poor, because he represented awareness of their needs. troubles.For the first nine years of Dickens's life he lived in the coastal areas of Kent, but when Dickens was twelve his family moved to London. He lived with his mother, father and seven brothers and sisters. His father, John Dickens, was a pleasant man, but very inept with money and was in huge debts throughout his life. As a result, John Dickens was arrested and sent to debtors' prison. Dickens' mother sent his siblings to prison with their father and arranged for Charles to live outside the prison and work with other children. Dickens found his work miserable. and thought he was too good for that; He also missed his family terribly. After Dickens' father was released from prison, Dickens returned to school. He went on to become a lawyer, then a court stenographer, and finally a successful novelist. It can be seen through Dickens' best-selling novel, Great Expectations, that the events of his youth are reflected in the novel. First, the reader can identify with Dickens's early experiences, as the novel's protagonist, Pip, who lives in a swampy area and hates his job. Pip also considers himself too good for his middle of paper......tella as a heartless femme fatale, rather than a virtuous and self-effacing "angel of the house". Throughout Dickens's Great Expectations, it is clear that most women are portrayed as heartless, vengeful, or violent. So this does not give an impression of women and shows that Dickens could have been gender biased, as most men were in the 19th and early 20th centuries. However, this may not have been Dickens' intention at all, as he also created some very evil male characters such as Dolge Orlick. Throughout Great Expectations, it is widely visible through every female character that they have been decimated by men. However, the reader also sees that it is also to do with classBooksDickens, Charles – Great expectations – Wordworth Classic – England - 1992Web addresseshttp://wwwsoc.nii.ac.jp/dickens/archive/general/g-terauchi- 3.pdf