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Boot Polish Warren's Blacking Factory-- Boot polish factory where 12-year-old Dickens was sent to work, fixing labels to bottles of blacking, to help support his family. Dickens had dreams of becoming a gentleman and was humiliated working with the rough men and boys at the factory. The experience had a major impact on Dickens later life and works and also on his relationship with his mother who, after Charles left the factory as the result of a quarrel between his father and the owners of the factory, argued unsuccessfully to have him sent back. Dickens relates the misery he felt during this time in the fictionalized account of David Copperfield working at Murdstone and Grinby's warehouse (David Copperfield). Warren's Blacking Factory was located at 30 Hungerford Stairs, the Strand. A ferry operated at the stairs until 1845 when Hungerford foot bridge opened , hoping to spur trade at Hungerford Market. The market was torn down in 1860 to make way for Charing Cross railway station and the footbridge was replaced by a railway bridge in 1863. The railway company argued that few people used the footbridge due to the smell from the river. The Micawbers take temporary lodging in a "little, dirty, tumble-down public-house" at Hungerford stairs before emigrating to Australia (David Copperfield).

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What was worrens blacking factory?

Warren's Blacking Factory was a factory where Charles Dickens worked as a child, pasting labels on bottles of boot blacking. This experience had a profound impact on Dickens and influenced his writing, including themes of poverty, class struggle, and social injustice in his novels.


How old was Charles when got first job at the Warrens blacking factory?

Charles Dickens was 12 years old when he first started working at the Warren's blacking factory.


Where was Charles Dickens first job?

Warren Blacking Factory


What kind of factory did Charles Dickens work at?

A Blacking Factory where they would what we call shoe polish boots


What is a boot blacking factory?

Boot blacking is what we now call polish. It was called blacking because that was the only color in which it was made. Much later other colors were introduced and eventually makers began calling it polish. It was in a boot blacking factory that Charles Dickens worked for a few months when he was 11 or 12; he applied labels to bottles of blacking.


When Charles Dickens was twelve he worked in what type of warehouse?

He worked for 8 months in a blacking (shoe polish) factory, attaching labels to bottles of blacking.


What does a boot blacking fctory do?

It is when you polish shoes and at a factory you make the polishing supplies.


What did dickens do in the blacking factory?

stuck price labels on bottles of blacking ( polish)


Where did Dickens go after being removed from school?

into warrens blacking factory the age of 11 in 1823


What was Warren's Black Factory?

Warren's Blacking Factory boot polish company. Dickens applied labels to bottles and secured the paper seals on top.


What was the name of the blacking factory Charles dickens worked in?

The closest to a specfic date is Wikipedia, who says it was right before his father was arrested for debt (John Dickens certain saw it coming). Charles was 12 at the time, which would make the year 1824.


Where did Charles dicksons work when he was 12?

At the age of 12, Charles Dickens worked in a blacking factory where he pasted labels onto pots of boot blacking. This experience marked him deeply and influenced much of his writing later on.