After receiving an inheritance, John Dickens was released and Charles was sent to the private Wellington House Academy in North London. He was an average student and left at 15 to work in a ...

QUESTION: Were some of Charles Dickens’s characters based on real people? My family and I are descended from the original Moses Pickwick (The Pickwick Papers). He was a foundling, born in 1694 ...

Charles Dickens developed a ritualistic routine ... It can be seen reflected in some of his characters, claims a new biography. Dickens had a habit of rearranging furniture whenever he stayed ...

Nevertheless, the existence of such an annotated biography demonstrates just how complex the pair's friendship was, according to Emma Harper, curator at the Charles Dickens Museum. "It was quite a ...

She has also edited John Forster’s biography of Dickens (Sterling ... Image courtesy of The Charles Dickens Museum This original illustration (on the right) shows the meeting of Mr Pickwick ...

When Patrick O’Connor went missing in August 1849, his friends were suspicious. The London dock worker was last seen in ...

Black-and-white photographs of Charles Dickens have been "colourised" using digital techniques to reveal a true likeness of the 19th Century novelist. The Charles Dickens Museum researched the ...

A new study offers clues to a 179-year-old mystery that killed more than 100 explorers on the Franklin expedition in the ...

Prepare yourself for plum puddings, snowy Christmases, and bitterly cold London scenes aplenty in these gorgeous Charles Dickens film and TV adaptations. It’s unsurprising, then, that the author ...

I’m still plugging away at my goal of listening to all of Charles Dickens’ books ... When I finish, I want to read/listen to ...

Memory, Mind & Media, Vol. 2, Issue. , This selection from the letters of Charles Dickens (1812–70) was edited (as it says on the title page) 'by his sister-in-law and his eldest daughter'. The former ...