We all know the story of Charles Dickens - the man who created some of the great characters in English literature. As this fascinating book reveals, we don't actually know the truth at all. Much of ...

If there is a single scene in a Dickens novel that is emblematic of the man and his art, it is the death of a character in "Bleak House," perhaps the greatest of all his novels, by spontaneous ...

Of the making of books by, about, from, around, among, between — pick your preposition — Charles Dickens, there apparently is no end. He wrote constantly, published promiscuously, lived intensely, ...

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 ...

ABOUT THE BOOK 2012 is a year of celebration -- festivals, readings, theatrical shows, films, seminars, tours -- all in honor of the great and inimitable Charles Dickens, on his 200th birthday.

Cardiff University provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation UK. When Charles Dickens died on June 9 1870, newspapers on both sides of the Atlantic framed his loss as an event of ...

Charleston, SC, March 27, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- As a founder member of the Royal Shakespeare Company and a member of the Dickens Fellowship, Roger Jerome has long held Charles Dickens in high ...

It's 200 years since the birth of the great English writer Charles Dickens. We'll find out about his life and his loves with the grand dame of literary biography, Claire Tomalin. Her book is Charles ...

“Literary biography is dead”: So my agent was told when she was shopping my biography of William Faulkner. With the exception of Hemingway, Orwell, and a few others, biographies of canonical authors ...

Charleston, SC, March 27, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- As a founder member of the Royal Shakespeare Company and a member of the Dickens Fellowship, Roger Jerome has long held Charles Dickens in high ...