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Was Charles Dickens an orphan

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∙ 12y ago

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No, Charles Dickens was not an orphan. He experienced financial hardship as a child when his father was imprisoned for debt, but he went on to become a successful novelist and achieved fame for his works such as "Oliver Twist" and "Great Expectations."

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No, he was not an orphan in the technical sense. However, his father was sent to debtors prison and the rest of his family moved to live near the prison, so Charles Dickens was left alone from an early stage in his childhood.

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∙ 8y ago

Yes. However, "Fan" or as she became known in later products of the play and the book "Fran" appears to have been a half sister. This is assumed because Ebenezer's mother is shown dying by the Ghost of Christmas Past just after his birth. Fan (Fran) is said to be Ebenezer's younger sister. Therefore his father must have remarried at some point.

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He had lost his mother at an early age, but he still had his father and Fran, his sister.

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He was a lonely child, abandoned by his father who left him at boarding school all year around even at Christmas

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∙ 9y ago

Yes, he did have a sister. Sister Fanny was his sister who loved him very much.

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