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First gets some schooling, although already an avid reader.

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Family moves to a house in Camden Town, London. Separated from family and put to work at Warren's Blacking Factory at Hungerford Market, CD walks four miles to and from lodgings in Camden Town; visits his father on Sundays at prison. Eventually family finds him lodging in Lant Street close to them. After father's release on May 28, family returns to Camden Town.

Attends day school in Hampstead Road, London. First number of Pickwick Papers appears on 30 March. Marries Catherine Hogarth on 2 April. Becomes editor of Bentley's Miscellany. Publishes in December the second series of Sketches by Boz. Meets John Forster , who will become a close friend and his first biographer.

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Catherine's younger sister Mary, whom he idolizes, dies. Catherine bears a son Charles, the first of seven sons and three daughters. Pickwick Papers finishes. Last part of Oliver Twist appears in April. Nicholas Nickleby finishes in October.