Dickens World, a theme park in Chatham, offers an 1800s immersion. The novelist, says the attraction's Kevin Christie, "was a showman. He would have loved this." Stuart Conway In an abandoned ...

The world of the early Dickens is organized according to a dualism which is based—in its artistic derivation—on the values of melodrama: there are bad people and there are good people ...

but Chatham in Kent is the home for the newly-opened Dickens World, a theme park based on the life, times and characters of the famous writer. Built on the very site where Dickens' father once ...

“But the diversion soon turned into a compulsion.” The intense vigor and color of the world according to Dickens—as told in his fiction and journalism—liberated the housebound author’s ...

Those are expected to take years to complete. Regardless, Dickens insisted Atlanta will have a “very festive time” during the World Cup with repaved roads and upgraded lighting. “I want ...

They’ve all been depicted in paintings by artist Andrew Dickens. The Aussie specialises in handmade oil paintings and spends most of his time illustrating the biggest names on the planet.