For Allison Epstein, author of the recently published “Fagin the Thief,” Fagin was the first Jewish character she encountered ...

Author Charles Dickens is best known for his memorable cast of characters, including Ebenezer Scrooge, David Copperfield and Oliver Twist, shown here. The Granger Collection, NYC One of the most ...

The story of Charles Dickens, who was born 200 years ago this year, Edgar Allan Poe and the Raven who captivated both of them. Accessibility statement Skip to main content.

Charles Dickens, however, had a much happier outcome in his friend John Forster’s three-volume biography, published between 1871 and 1874. The trouble, ...

When Charles Dickens toured America for the last time, he gave Chicago the cold shoulder, as well as his widowed Chicago sister-and-law. The local press attacked him as a Scrooge and a hypocrite ...

Early in the winter of 1841 it had been announced that Charles Dickens would shortly visit this country, and Mr. Alexander wrote to him at London, inviting him to sit for his picture on his arrival.

Dickens was the great wizard of family life, a tireless demon who seemed to work full-time at organizing private theatricals and picnics. He gave all his children nicknames—his favorite daughter ...

Blake Montgomery in “Charles Dickens Begrudgingly Performs ‘A Christmas Carol’ Again” at the Den Theatre. (Joe Mazza) This makes me wonder, why filter the story through Dickens at all?