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

So states Sherlock Holmes in The Red-Headed League. The Master Detective claims to be an accomplished orienteer, able to ...

In Miss Austen, Jane is sadly two-dimensional – so unlike her heroines - 3/5 There’s much to admire in this series about Jane and her sister Cassandra, who inexplicably burned many of the writer’s ...

Thomas Downing — a freeman born to formerly enslaved people in Virginia — became one of the city’s wealthiest citizens as the ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

DID you know the world-famous 19th-century English novelist Charles Dickens once wrote a play about the Malvern Water Cure? In fact, he visited Malvern several times. While living in London in ...

Blue Harbor Entertainment and Angel Studios have debuted the full-length trailer for ‘The King of Kings, the new, faith-based film animation.

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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 ...

Whether it’s John Murray burning Lord Byron’s letters at Albemarle Street, Charles Dickens consigning his correspondence with Wilkie Collins to the flames, or Sylvia Plath’s personal ...