If there is a single scene in a Dickens novel that is emblematic of the man and his art, it is the death of a character in "Bleak House," perhaps the greatest of all his novels, by spontaneous ...

ABOUT THE BOOK 2012 is a year of celebration -- festivals, readings, theatrical shows, films, seminars, tours -- all in honor of the great and inimitable Charles Dickens, on his 200th birthday.

We all know the story of Charles Dickens - the man who created some of the great characters in English literature. As this fascinating book reveals, we don't actually know the truth at all. Much of ...

Charles Dickens published his first story in a London monthly at age 22. Although he wasn't paid and it appeared without his name, he was so overcome with joy and pride it took him half an hour to ...

Charleston, SC, March 27, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- As a founder member of the Royal Shakespeare Company and a member of the Dickens Fellowship, Roger Jerome has long held Charles Dickens in high ...

In 1842, British author Charles Dickens was a “rock star” of his generation. Only 30 years old at the time, he was famous for such works as "The Pickwick Papers," "The Adventures of Oliver Twist," ...

Cardiff University provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation UK. When Charles Dickens died on June 9 1870, newspapers on both sides of the Atlantic framed his loss as an event of ...

Professor of English Lillian Nayder’s new biography The Other Dickens: A Life of Catherine Hogarth –the first comprehensive portrait of the woman whom Charles Dickens married and then repudiated — is ...

Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded as the greatest ...

The common view of Dickens is that he was a man of great compassion for the poor and the oppressed. He was. But he was also an angry and lecherous old man who dispatched his wife for an 18-year-old ...