When did Charles Dickens become successful as a writer?

Charles Dickens was forced to leave school twice in his young life. It was the second time that began a career that many have seen as incredible. He started working as an office boy, running errands. He later applied as a freelancer for one of the journals, writing court cases, within a couple of years, he was reporting for two of the largest papers in London. It would be a start that would launch into more significant things.

He began to publish smaller installments of “The Pickwick Papers” under an assumed name, Boz, in 1833 and they were widely enjoyed and sought after. After it was published, he married his wife Catherine, and together they had ten children. It was the publishing of these installments that began as sketches for fun, that propelled him into a successful career in writing.

It was the social injustices that Dickens was seeing that propelled him to even larger writings. With installments of his works appearing in the papers, he became a well known, and beloved author of the Victorian England times. Queen Victoria was reported to have also enjoyed reading Charles Dickens works, staying up late to finish reading them.