Charles Dickens was born on 7 February, 1812. He died on 9 June, 1870. He lived to the age of 58. He was the child of John Dickens and Elizabeth Dickens. He had 10 children, Charles Dickens Jr., Mary Dickens, Kate Perugini, Walter Landor Dickens, Francis Dickens, Alfred D'Orsay Tennyson Dickens, Sydney Smith Haldimand Dickens, Henry Fielding Dickens, Dora Annie Dickens, and Edward Dickens.