Charles Dickens first visited the United States and Canada for six months in 1842, arriving in New York City with his first wife Catherine on January 31, 1842. He was only 30 years old, but had ...

Instead, it became the Charles Dickens Museum, a small space on Doughty ... George Cruikshank and Fred Barnard—as well as early drawings for the original edition of A Christmas Carol.

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 ...

To mark 100 years since an unassuming house in Bloomsbury was saved from being turned into a hotel -- and became the Charles ...

These follicular insights are just the tip of the toupee at the Charles Dickens Museum's new show. "Dickens in Doughty Street: 100 Years of the Charles Dickens Museum" is the long but self-explanatory ...

Heralded as one of the best—if not the best—novelists of the Victorian era, Charles Dickens longed for fame from an early age ...

He then continued to write these sketches of “everyday life ... a glamorous banker’s daughter two years Dickens’ senior. When she was 21, Charles told her he loved her – and she called ...

Charles Dickens was born in Hampshire ... and later as a journalist writing political “sketches” for newspapers and periodicals. From these sketches he progressed to writing short stories ...