Premise: Charles John Huffam Dickens ( [ ˈdɪkᵻnz ] 7 February 1812 -- 9 June 1870 ) was an English writer and social critic . Born in Portsmouth , Dickens left school to work in a factory when his father was incarcerated in a debtors ' prison . Portsmouth ( [ ˈpɔrtsməθ ] ) is a port city in Hampshire , England , mainly on Portsea Island , 70 mi south-west of London and 19 mi south-east of Southampton . It is the United Kingdom 's only island city and has a population of 205,400 . The port is the second busiest in the United Kingdom after Dover , handling around three million passengers a year .
Hypothesis: Charles Dickens was European.
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