Did you know that the way people celebrate Christmas today is directly influenced by the success of the classic novella by ...

When his father was called to London again to be a clerk in the Naval Pay Office, the elder Dickens amassed so much debt that the entire family—except for Charles and his older sister Fanny ...

The Victorian Era was a time of the Industrial Revolution, with authors Charles Dickens and Charles Darwin, the railway and ...

Graphics students at Cowes Enterprise College, part of Ormiston Academies Trust, recently met the great-great-grandson of ...

To celebrate its 100th anniversary, the Charles Dickens Museum in London is staging an exhibition of historic objects that shed light on the writer’s life and legacy Julia Binswanger Daily ...

Ever wished you could travel back to the mean streets of Victorian London, the one described by the era’s most beloved writer, Charles Dickens? One place to start would be the townhouse at 48 ...

A five-story townhouse in London's Mayfair district was long owned by an Earl and was visited in the 19th century by Napoleon ...

I rest my claims to the remembrance of my country upon my published works...". Dickens died at his house, Gad's Hill Place, near Rochester in Kent and it was presumed that he would be buried at ...

To mark 100 years since an unassuming house in Bloomsbury was saved from being turned into a hotel -- and became the Charles ...

AN independent city bookshop is hosting the first of potentially many festivals that pay homage to the time a literary legend ...

A copy of David Copperfield read by Captain Scott while trapped in an ice cave and the room where Dickens wrote Oliver Twist are on show at ...