The film will ‘teach the lesson of how prejudice, poverty and division shapes our society today,’ the director said ...

In Charles Dickens’s opinion, Great Expectations —the classic (and pretty dark) story about orphaned Pip’s conflict-fraught journey to find his place in the world—had an undeniable sense ...

A sketch of Dickens at the time he lived at Doughty St. It is believed to be a sketch for the lost third portrait by Samuel Laurence. Courtesy the Charles Dickens Museum.

The Charles Dickens Museum acquired the 11 letters from a private seller in the United States in 2020. The purchase also included over 300 of the author’s personal items: portraits, sketches ...

Author Charles Dickens is best known for his memorable cast of characters, including Ebenezer Scrooge, David Copperfield and Oliver Twist, shown here. The Granger Collection, NYC One of the most ...

Dickens was, of course, "the Inimitable"—it was an epithet he enjoyed invoking himself—and he experienced both the gratifications and the penalties of celebrity on a heroic scale.

When Charles Dickens was 12 years old, his father's debts finally caught up with him, and he was sent to the Marshalsea Debtors' Prison. (It was a baker who sent him there.

Mark Dickens, the great-great-grandson of Charles Dickens, said: "This quite staggering material brings us even closer to the man himself, his character, feelings, family and friends." ...

Charles Dickens was a 19th Century artist who was born in 1812. How much does a Charles Dickens cost? Charles Dickens's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging ...