Charles Dickens despised the Victorian legal system. In “ Bleak House ,” he invented the epic, decades-spanning Jarndyce v.

The paintings depict the Dickens family: Charles, Catherine and their two ... they are exact replicas of those seen in the background of Dickens’ portraits. When painter Robert William Buss ...

She was a shadowy presence in the background of biographies ... were the same age as Georgina. The Charles Dickens Museum holds letters from Georgina to the family written after Dickens’s ...

“It’s taken five years to organise,” says Commander Mark Dickens, a great-great grandson of Charles and the nominal head of the family. “Thank God for email. I’ve been doing the family ...

In “The Life and Lies of Charles Dickens ... debtors’ prison. Dickens, who wrote his own press releases, had managed to suppress the most basic facts about his background; now readers ...

that my ancestor knew Charles Dickens. Indeed, there is a long-held Hales legend – passed down William's side of the family – concerning the great author. It is said that Dickens visited the ...

In 1869, a year before Charles Dickens ... years after his death, Dickens' final request has sparked an impassioned debate among his most ardent fans – and his family are suggesting his dying ...

No fewer than 160 of the author’s descendants gathered yesterday for the 200th anniversary of his birth.