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Watch videos & listen free to Charles Dickens: A Christmas Carol: An Original Performance by Tim Curry (Unabridged), Eine Weihnachtsgeschichte & more, plus 2 pictures. Charles John Huffman Dickens was born on 7 February, 1812 in Portsmouth, Hampshire, England (now the Dickens Birthplace Museum) the son of Elizabeth née Barrow (1789-1863) and John Dickens (c.1785-1851) a clerk in the Navy Pay Office. John was a congenial man, hospitable and generous to a fault which caused him financial difficulties throughout his life. He inspired the character Mr. Micawber in David Copperfield (1849-1850). Charles had an older brother Frances, known as Fanny, and younger siblings Alfred Allen, Letitia Mary, Harriet, Frederick William known as Fred, Alfred Lamert, and Augustus Newnham. Discover more music, concerts, videos, and pictures with the largest catalogue online at Last.fm.