After Charles Dickens’s death in 1870, the first biographer to narrate his life and career was his closest friend. John Forster’s “The Life of Charles Dickens,” published in 1872, served for many ...

An exhibition at Charles Dickens' former home explores the women in his life - and the characters they inspired.

There is no shortage of doorstop biographies of Charles Dickens (1812–1870). This latest one by Slater, a Dickens scholar and professor emeritus at the University of London, bears an easy, fluid ...

DEVENTER, Netherlands — The Dutch city of Deventer transformed Saturday into a pocket of 19th-century England, with 950 people in costumes bringing characters from Charles Dickens’ books to life.

Charles Dickens believed kindness and human connection hold immense power. His enduring idea, that helping others gives life ...

The Charles Dickens Museum is celebrating its anniversary by displaying rare books, artworks, letters, artifacts and other unique historical objects connected to the 19th-century author. Mondadori ...

Everyone knows "A Christmas Carol." What everyone doesn't know, now, is that Dickens' 1843 tale of Ebenezer Scrooge and the ghosts was just the first in a series of annual holiday books. "The Chimes," ...