Charles John Huffham Dickens born February 7, Portsmouth, England, oldest son of John Dickens, a Navy Pay Office clerk, and Elizabeth Barrow Dickens. Dickens's father is transferred frequently, moving ...

Here are some of the facts they unwrap… Charles Dickens’s father, John, worked as a naval clerk, but the family struggled with money. Just before Christmas 1823, his father, mother and ...

His father went to debtor’s prison. John Dickens’ salary as a clerk didn’t match his love of luxuries and socialising. In early 1824, when Charles was 12, he was arrested for his debts.

A chalk and pastel sketch of Dickens at the time when he was living in Doughty Street A collection of rarely-seen items connected to 19th century writer Charles Dickens are to go on show at the ...

To commemorate Charles Dickens's historic trip to Lowell in 1842, UMass Lowell and its partners developed the Dickens in Lowell Project. Building on the success of our 2012 bicentenary community ...

The two plays, one a Shakespeare rom-com and the other an adaptation of a Dickens classic, have more in common than being the work of perhaps the two greatest writers in the English language.