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 ...

Of all the stories told about the meaning of Christmas, after the Biblical account of the Nativity of Christ, certainly one of the best known must be Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol.” Originally ...

If you celebrate Christmas, chances are you've adapted some traditions that were popularized in the mid-1800s by one author: Charles Dickens. Even if you don't celebrate Christmas, it's hard to ignore ...

Hulu’s Australian series “The Artful Dodger” is an energetic, fast paced period piece – it’s not going to knock your socks off, but it’s entertaining enough. Now streaming and based on the Charles ...

Madeleine Wood received funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council for her PhD, Victorian Familial Enigmas: Inheritance and Influence, where she first developed her work on Dickens and ...

We all remember Charles Dickens for the classics we studied in school, like Great Expectations andA Tale of Two Cities. For me, too, Dickens was just the “famous writer” from my coursework, someone ...

When the classic British sci-fi TV series “Doctor Who” was rebooted for the new century in 2005, the very first journey into the past for its time-traveling alien protagonist and his human companion ...

There's no humbug for this descendant of one of literature's all-time greats. A special rendition of "A Christmas Carol" took the stage at Long Island's Huntington Cinema Arts Center in the weeks ...