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 ...

As beloved as Shakespeare, Charles Dickens has suffered no dearth of biographies, beginning with the ponderous but indispensable three-volume tome produced by his friend John Forster, and including ...

In 1842, British author Charles Dickens was a “rock star” of his generation. Only 30 years old at the time, he was famous for such works as "The Pickwick Papers," "The Adventures of Oliver Twist," ...

Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded as the greatest ...

This year's bicentennial of the birth of Charles Dickens has fixed the world's imagination on one of the greatest English writers of all time. Like Shakespeare, Dickens (a.k.a. "Boz") is that rare ...

On paper, the life of a writer, even that of a world-famous icon, doesn’t seem overly cinematic. For those whose pen actually is mightier than a sword, the works often overshadow the personality.

The common view of Dickens is that he was a man of great compassion for the poor and the oppressed. He was. But he was also an angry and lecherous old man who dispatched his wife for an 18-year-old ...