A festival celebrating Charles Dickens will be held in Worcestershire, nearly 170 years since the novelist visited the county ...

Dickens works such as the Christmas stories were regularly turned into stage plays during his life, while today most people ...

Charles Dickens trained many to hate capitalism, but he never understood the difference between envious hatred of wealth and ...

The celebrated Riverside Dickens Festival will return to downtown Riverside next month, boasting entertainment reminiscent of Victorian-era London, and the life and times of author Charles Dickens.

The book, which tells the story of miser Ebenezer Scrooge who is forced to become more charitable when he's visited by ghosts, inspired Victorians to celebrate Christmas, which, as a holiday, had been ...

Written in 1882, "A Christmas Dream, and How It Came True," covered many of the same themes as Dickens' classic, albeit with ...

Dickens’s Christmas novella is often read as a reassuring parable about our ability to change — but the whole point of Scrooge’s ghostly visitations is how dramatically his moral life needs to be ...

Most country houses demand you look up and around at what you see. At Restoration House in Rochester, you'll miss out if you ...

Not Nigella Lawson, Christopher Kimball or other contemporary luminaries who have taken up both pen and carving knife. They all labor in the shadow of "A Christmas Carol," wherein Dickens, back in ...

Charles Dickens, photographed at the age of 49 by the London portrait photographer George Herbert Watkins. Watkins took several portraits of Dickens between 1858 and 1861 and they have helped define ...