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Christmas with Charles Dickens

Get Sleepy: Sleep meditation and stories

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A Novel by Charles Dickens

Charles's father, john, was a clerk in the navy. The family had to move frequently because of his spending habits. When Charles was just 12 years old, he found work at a factory that made blacking polish. His six shilling weekly income was his only means of contributing to his family's freedom. Through his writing, he would later expose the many great injustices of victorian society.

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