Little Charles, nicknamed Sparky, adores his super-smart dog named Spike who drinks from the bathroom sink and knows more than 50 words and will be featured in all Sparky’s drawing as a dog ...

Charles Dickens despised the Victorian legal system. In “Bleak House,” he invented the epic, decades-spanning Jarndyce v. Jarndyce legal battle over a family inheritance to expose the system ...

Tate Britain, LondonA Flemish ‘paintrix’ at the court of Elizabeth I, a magnificent mouth artist and a glamorous suffragette are finally given their due in a show tracing female artists’ rocky road to ...

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 ...

A Kent landscape of ancient woodlands, wildflower meadows and chalk grasslands that inspired novelist Charles Dickens has been designated a national nature reserve. Natural England, which advises ...

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To mark the 100th anniversary of the opening of the Charles Dickens Museum in London, on June 9, a number of the author’s descendants will give talks and readings. Museum entry will be free to the ...

I rest my claims to the remembrance of my country upon my published works...". Dickens died at his house, Gad's Hill Place, near Rochester in Kent and it was presumed that he would be buried at ...

Newell is ten days into shooting the latest adaptation of Great Expectations, widely regarded as the most complex and magisterial of Charles Dickens’ works. To create a replica of West London ...

Ellen "Nelly" Ternan, in 1870, was a figure lost to history. Charles Dickens Museum In 1953, when future biographer Claire Tomalin was studying English literature at Cambridge, she came across ...

Throngs of people gathered Saturday in a scenic Minneapolis neighborhood for an annual ritual — the sharpening of a gigantic ...