Charles Dickens - Events during the writing of Great Expectations

Great Expectations was published in 1861 to resounding approvement from both his critics and fans. The novel also almost directly followed a period of retrospection in Dickens’ life, wherein he burned many personal letters and re-read the most auto-biographical of his novels, David Copperfield. During this time, he was also the publisher and editor of the journals Household Words and All Year Round.