"Author's experience as a child labourer shaped his novels and social commentary within his works For Charles Dickens, his distaste of poverty and inequality was not born out of some distant observations of the society of his time, but from his lived experience within it. At the age of only 12, he was employed at Warren's Blacking Factory at London's Hungerford Stairs, fixing labels to bottles of boot polish."
"For Charles Dickens, his distaste of poverty and inequality was not born out of some distant observations of the society of his time, but from his lived experience within it. At the age of only 12, he was employed at Warren's Blacking Factory at London's Hungerford Stairs, fixing labels to bottles of boot polish."
Charles Dickens experienced poverty firsthand and worked as a child labourer. At age twelve he worked at Warren's Blacking Factory on London's Hungerford Stairs. His duties included fixing labels to bottles of boot polish. Those early years in the factory left a lasting distaste for poverty and social inequality. The experience informed the themes, characters, and social commentary in his novels. Several of his fictional portrayals of working-class hardship and child exploitation draw on memories of that work. The combination of personal hardship and literary talent directed his attention toward social reform in his storytelling.
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