After 22 years of marriage and 10 children, Charles Dickens famously dumped his wife, Catherine Dickens, in 1858. Wielding the power of his pen, he alleged that Catherine was mentally unbalanced and ...

Mr. Dickens had left England an invalid ... They brought from England a large pencil-drawing of their four children, "Charles, Walter, Kate, and Mary," made by their friend Maclise, the eminent ...

After receiving an inheritance, John Dickens was released and Charles was sent to the private ... He also kept Catherine busy with their 10 children. In June 1865, Dickens was returning from ...

In my last column, I celebrated A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, which I saw as particularly powerful in its ...

Charles Dickens lived in the 1800s, the Victorian age. Life could be hard for children then. Many had to go out to work. At 12, Dickens himself left school to work in a factory putting labels on pots.