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 ...

A Christmas Carol, Dickens' most filmed work, is celebrated as part of a museum exhibition An exhibition at a former home of Charles Dickens explores how the writer's work has been brought to life on ...

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 ...

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," ...

LONDON: It’s both the best and worst of times to produce a Dickens biography. Best because (for anyone just returned from the further reaches of the galaxy) 2012 is the bicentenary of the great man’s ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

In that respect few subjects offer a tougher challenge than Charles Dickens, with whom the novelist Jane Smiley has been paired. As she acknowledges at the outset of her book, his is "possibly the ...

An exhibition at a former home of Charles Dickens explores how the writer's work has been brought to life on stage and screen, and how a twist of fate could have led to an alternative life as an actor ...