What kind of stories did Charles Dickens write?
Charles Dickens’ novels (first published in weekly or monthly installments) were mostly written in the style of social commentary–he was a fierce critic of class and poverty, which is why many of his works tended to be ‘poor-boy-made-good’ (David Copperfield, Oliver Twist, Little Dorrit, etc.) in essence. There was also an autobiographical feel to some of his works–he was ashamed of what he considered his lowly past, which he took pains to cover up. There was a certain sentimentality to his writing (the death of Little Nell), too. His writing mostly highlighted the life of the poor, forgotten and disadvantaged–through his writings, the whole of Victorian society came to be described as ‘Dickensian’.
