A draft of Dracula, what's thought to be the only Shakespeare portrait to be painted while he was alive, a picture of Austen by her sister, John Milton's publishing contract for Paradise Lost, letters ...

King Charles was full of laughs during a visit to Somerset House on Wednesday wile across town Queen Camilla was 'moved' by tour of prolific author Charles Dickens' former London home.

The museum acquired it in 2019 and now believes it to be an original drawing for Samuel Laurence’s ‘lost’ third portrait of Dickens. There’s also a wall of more portraits here, showing Dickens as he ...

The long-lost portrait of Charles Dickens by Margaret Gillies from 1843. Photo courtesy the Charles Dickens Museum.

Celebrate Somerset House at 25.Photo: Matt Brown. As we bid farewell to 2024, we're looking forward to what's planned in London for 2025. The capital's expecting new venues, museums, exhibitions ...

Charles Dickens Scrooge meets Jacob Marley ghost Illustration from A Christmas Carol Ebenezer Scrooge meets ghost of Jacob Marley scrooge stock illustrations. ... Portrait of Sir Edward Seymour Hicks ...

A Lost Dickens Gets a Wash ... (1843). Photo via Getty Images. This portrait of a then 31-year-old Charles Dickens, which dates to 1843, ...

In Charles Dickens’ story “The Black Veil,” published in 1836, a young physician new to his profession is still waiting anxiously for the appearance of a first patient to launch his practice.

Assuming there is such a thing as a diehard Charles Dickens fan in 2023, they will have middling expectations, at best, of Steven Knight’s take on the original rags-to-riches bildungsroman.

As Dickens said in his sketch, “A Christmas Tree,” published in his journal “Household Words” in 1850, “Oh, now all common things become uncommon and enchanted to me.” ...

The profile portrait (see above and below) was taken by John Jabez Edwin Mayall at his 224 Regent Street studio, around 1852-55. At the time, Dickens would have been in the throes of writing Bleak ...

C harles Dickens blew away his audience. Starting in Boston in 1867, the British superstar gave dramatic readings of his popular novels, including “A Christmas Carol.” The sold-out tour was a critical ...