The family's increasing poverty forced Dickens out of school at age 12 to work in Warren's Blacking Warehouse, a shoe-polish factory, where the other working boys mocked him as "the young gentleman".

家里日益贫困的生活迫使狄更斯在12岁时辍学，到沃伦的鞋油仓库工作，这是一家鞋油厂，在那里工作的男孩嘲笑他是“年轻的绅士”。