Charles John Huffam Dickens was born on ... On the basis of the success of Sketches by Boz, Dickens was approached by the publishers Chapman and Hall to write text to accompany engraved ...

Prized among these is a chalk and pastel sketch of Dickens from ... told the BBC. “Dickens in Doughty Street: 100 Years of the Charles Dickens Museum” is on view at the Charles Dickens Museum ...

Illustrated from Drawings by F.O.C. DARLEY and JOHN GILBERT ... TOWNSEND & Co. would commence the publication of an edition of DICKENS, surpassing in beauty of binding and illustration any ...

A chalk and pastel sketch of Dickens at the time when he was living in Doughty Street A collection of rarely-seen items connected to 19th century writer Charles Dickens are to go on show at the ...

When his father was called to London again to be a clerk in the Naval Pay Office, the elder Dickens amassed so much debt that the entire family—except for Charles and his older sister Fanny ...

London’s Charles Dickens was charmed by Cincinnati during his only visit here in April 1842, even if his sketch of America was less flattering. In his travelogue “American Notes for General ...

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 ...

escaped demolition and became the Charles Dickens Museum. The exhibition, which runs from February until the end of June, will display for the first time a chalk and pastel sketch of Dickens at ...