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 ...

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 ...

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 ...