The famous writer's time sticking labels on bottles as a child had a profound impact on his life.
When Dickens started work the factory was based at Hungerford Stairs, close to where Charing Cross Station is today
The novelist was sent to work at Warren's Blacking Factory when he was a young boy as his family faced poverty. Nevertheless, the time had a huge impact on Dickens, influencing many of the works he became so famous for like David Copperfield and Oliver Twist, according to Frankie Kubicki, senior curator at the Charles Dickens Museum."The 11-year-old boy who walked to work from lodgings in Camden and Southwark every morning experienced the ugliness of factory life and received a permanent mental imprint of the hardship that was lurking to find impoverished children in the capital city.
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