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 ...

Now that the pandemic has returned and many are quarantined in their houses, perhaps the sale of books and e-books will soar. Of special interest is England’s greatest popular and literary writer, ...

The Extra/Ordinary Women exhibition offers insights to many of these women. His wife, Catherine Dickens, who also wrote ...

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 ...

Not many people know that Charles Dickens was an actor as well as a writer. A workaholic who was haunted by memories of his impoverished childhood, when he worked in a blacking factory, Dickens was ...

Suppose Charles Dickens had died in 1850, at age 38—perhaps in a railway accident like the crash, in 1865, that killed 10 of his fellow passengers and left his nerves permanently frayed; or, more ...

Charles Dickens was the 'Boz' of Victorian literature and master storyteller of social ills. Read the Quote of the Day by Charles Dickens, its uplifting meaning on laughter's power, Dickens' ...