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

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

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.

There have been so many adaptations of Charles Dickens's “A Christmas Carol ... “Scrooged” still feels fresh. Here are 20 facts about the comedy that were given to us by three ghosts ...

Each December, the Dickens characters come to us in movies, plays, advertisements, and cartoons starring Mr. Magoo and Mickey Mouse. So it's worth remembering that Charles Dickens wrote the ...

Of all the stories told about the meaning of Christmas, after the Biblical account of the Nativity of Christ, certainly one of the best known must be Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol.” ...