Returning to the Cow Palace for its 36th year, the Great Dickens Christmas Fair & Victorian Holiday Party has kicked off once again for several weekends (November 22 - December 21) of mulled wine and ...

Charles Dickens grimly portrayed Londoners as people resigned to hardscrabble living, ubiquitous filth, and prevalent violence, and Flanders (The Invention of Murder) successfully recreates the feel ...

The Victorian London scenes vividly described in Charles Dickens' work are being celebrated in a major exhibition at the Museum of London which marks the 200th anniversary of the author's birth. Here ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- The Great Dickens Christmas Fair transforms San Francisco into the world of Charles Dickens. It is a Christmas event unlike any other in the world. RELATED: A Holiday Wonderland the ...

We arrived at the entry gate of the 33rd Annual Great Dickens Fair & Victorian Holiday Party with great expectations, which indeed were fulfilled in every possible way. The Fair, in all its generously ...

HOUSTON — The Victorian-themed holiday celebration in Galveston returns this weekend. Dickens on the Strand takes visitors back in time to Victorian London celebrating Charles Dickens and a time ...

Because Charles Dickens can't celebrate his 200th birthday this week, the world is doing it for him. Two days ago, a memorial service was held in London to commemorate the writer. Prince Charles laid ...

LONDON (Reuters Life!) - At his writing desk in a central London townhouse the young Charles Dickens penned some of the novels that made this name as an author and set him on the path of becoming an ...

Full disclosure: in high school I signed up for a college-level seminar on the literature of Charles Dickens. We read his most noted works and pages of his journalism. I loved his quirky characters ...