To celebrate its 100th anniversary, the Charles Dickens Museum in London is staging an exhibition of historic objects that ...

What everyone doesn't know, now, is that Dickens' 1843 tale of Ebenezer Scrooge and the ghosts was just the first in a series of annual holiday books. "The Chimes," "The Cricket on the Hearth ...

Almost universally appreciative when he is writing of Dickens’ books, Biographer Leacock is also sympathetic when it comes to his hero’s private life. But he considers that Dickens never ...

DEVENTER, Netherlands (AP) — The Dutch city of Deventer transformed Saturday into a pocket of 19th-century England, with 950 people in costumes bringing characters from Charles Dickens’ books ...

Enter the world of Charles Dickens in an London exhibition of portraits, private letters, rare manuscripts at the author's ...

Revered for his ability to craft intimate windows into life in London during the Victorian period in all its desperate squalor and utter glory, Charles Dickens’ novels remain some of the most ...

When Dickens decided to notice, in his book, none of the first and second class of Americans he met, but to confine himself to the third and fourth, and only to notice them except as they were his ...

In 1843 the Victorian novelist wrote A Christmas Carol and started the phenomenon of the festive book. Charles Dickens Illustrated Gallery Mr Fezziwig's Ball by John Leech, from A Christmas Carol ...

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How such “education” might best be carried out is the subject of “Dear Mr. Dickens,” a new picture book written by Nancy Churnin and illustrated by Bethany Stancliffe. This true story of ...