Heralded as one of the best—if not the best—novelists of the Victorian era, Charles Dickens longed for fame from an early age. And, after a difficult childhood beset by financial troubles, he set out ...

WHEN I was a naïve 19-year-old student reading Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations, I did not have many expectations of myself or the book. All I wanted was to survive wading through it ...

the elder Dickens amassed so much debt that the entire family—except for Charles and his older sister Fanny—were sent to Marshalsea debtors’ prison (later the setting of Dickens’s novel ...

Greg Jenner talks about Charles Dickens' tough upbringing ... He was too ashamed to write his life story Tales from his sad time in the factory were later used in the Dickens novel David Copperfield.

How did Dickens ... Charles was sent to the private Wellington House Academy in North London. He was an average student and left at 15 to work in a solicitors' office as a clerk. A year later ...

Perhaps the strongest argument for Great Expectations as evidence of Dickens’ potential as a videogame writer are its ...

Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol is among ... or that it would evolve into a beloved classic more than 180 years later. Dickens began to write what would become A Christmas Carol in October ...

By the time he left, two and a half years later, he had published The ... photographs and historic items that illuminate the life and works of Charles Dickens and the Museum’s role in ...

"We encourage residents to join us to mark the anniversary of Charles Dickens' birth and celebrate the life and work of one ... moving to Hawks Street, a home later destroyed during the Blitz ...

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 ...