Malala Yousafzai was just 11 when she started writingadiary for BBC Urdu about life under the Taliban militants who had taken control of the Swat Valley in 2007 and ordered girls' schools to close.
From the time he published his first story in 1833 till his death in 1870, Dickens was frantically busy, not only with his writing but also with a crammed social diary and taxing commitments to charities, causes and campaigns.