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 ...

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Image: Old Vic Since 2017, Waterloo's Old Vic theatre has staged Jack Thorne's (writer of Harry Potter and The Cursed Child) version of the Dickens Christmas parable, which comes loaded with all ...

In a show that loves to give supernatural twists to well-known historical figures, this choice speaks to Dickens’ longstanding grip on the popular imagination, from his own time to the present.

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 ...

A strong sense of place can deeply influence a story, and in some cases, the setting can even feel like a character itself — and in the works of Charles Dickens, that character was 19th-century ...

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 to life.Oliver Twist, Ebenezer ...

Americans are obsessed with a white Christmas and all the trimmings – snow, icicles, sleigh rides, frost on windowpanes, cuddling up by the fire, mittens, the North Pole. Christmas is a ...

It all starts with Dickens. As in Charles Dickens, the English novelist and author of the enormously popular "A Christmas Carol" first published in 1843. "It cemented his role as one of the most ...

Headlines and online comments have expressed the obligatory outrage about Orwell’s demotion, Dickens’ absence, and the (admittedly puzzling) decision to lose Sylvia Plath but keep Ted Hughes.

When Dawn Faber heard that the beloved annual Dickens festival in her community of Carlyle, Sask., might have to fold, she was aghast. "We can't let this festival die. It brings so much into ...