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

A museum in the 19th century London home in which the British writer wrote Oliver Twist and The Pickwick Papers, has now been ...

Heralded as one of the best—if not the best—novelists of the Victorian era, Charles Dickens longed for fame from an early age. And, after a difficult childhood beset by financial troubles, he set out ...

Greg Jenner talks about Charles Dickens' tough upbringing. 1. The Dickens family crest was not the Dickens family crest Charles was born in 1812, but his family were not in any way posh.

of a great genius like that of Charles Dickens. Mrs. Dickens was accompanied by her favorite waiting-maid, Ann—a warm-hearted English girl,—I believe London born and bred,—and devotedly ...

Everyone knows the classic Christmas tale, A Christmas Carol, written by Charles Dickens, whether from watching one of the many adaptations on Christmas Eve or from reading the original work around ...

Prepare yourself for plum puddings, snowy Christmases, and bitterly cold London scenes aplenty in these gorgeous Charles Dickens film and ... who is born and raised in the Marshalsea prison ...

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 title page of the first edition of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol Public domain via Wikimedia Commons In the preface to his novella A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens wrote that he ...

But A Christmas Carol is where Dickens created this long-lasting tradition that many cultures worldwide celebrate. Known for his attention-grabbing first lines, in A Christmas Carol, Dickens ...