Among Austen’s close contemporaries, Walter Scott – now little read or adapted – was seen as inestimably more worthy, not ...

When I was a child, we lived in a two-up, two-down terraced slum in Walthamstow, East London with bombsites at the back. My ...

Charles S. Cohen has been married twice and has four children from both marriages. He divorced his first wife and has two children, a daughter, and a son who both work at Cohen Brothers Realty ...

A new exhibition celebrates 100 years of the Charles Dickens Museum. Behold! Dickens with a moustache! What do we reckon? "A hideous disfigurement," was the verdict of the author's friend and ...

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 ...

Thousands of objects, some of them never before exhibited, from the English writer Charles Dickens, father of characters such ...

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 ...

Commissions do not affect our editors' opinions or evaluations. It’s never too early to start teaching your children about finances and encouraging them to save. In fact, research has shown that ...

After panel testing top-rated children’s beds, we found the best kids mattress to suit nearly every sleep style, from sweaty kiddos to those restless sleepers who spin in figure eights all night.

They may have the knowledge but bosses younger than them wonder about how many years they can give to the company, particularly when the super looms, the kids have left, and the mortgage is paid.

By Donna Barba Higuera Gianni Rodari used puns, topsy-turvyism and zany names to invent stories for children and help children invent their own. By Mac Barnett For the three Latino kids ...