查尔斯·狄更斯是19世纪英国伟大的批判现实主义小说家,他出生于朴茨茅斯市郊的一个普通职员家庭,卒于罗切斯特附近的盖茨山庄。狄更斯的父亲约翰·狄更斯是海军会计处的职员,工作勤恳,为人慷慨,但缺乏经济头脑,经常入不敷出;母亲伊丽莎白出身贵族家庭,温柔善良,但不擅长持家理财。 Charles Dickens was a great critical realist novelist of the 19th century in the United Kingdom. He was born in an ordinary staff home on the outskirts of Portsmouth and died in the Gates estate near Rochester. Dickens’ father, John Dickens, a member of the Navy’s accounting department, worked diligently and generously, lacking in economic resources and often making ends meet. Mother Elizabeth, a gentleman of good family, was not good at holding a house.