Charles Dickens Charles Dickens expressed his views and feelings for the lives of the poor and the need for social change in Victorian life. The characters were people he knew and the events that happen in the stories are similar in what he went through. He shows us how tough life was back then and how the society classes dealt with their problems. CHRONOLOGY · 1812 - Charles Dickens born at Landsport, Portsmouth on Feb. 7. · 1817 - Dickens Family moves to Chatman · 1823 - They move again to Camden Town, London and John Dickens (Father) is imprisoned for money debt at Marshalsea Prison Lodging. · 1824 - Charles started to earn his own living at Warren’s Blacking W