Novels only ‘reinforced Victorian stereotypes’ of meek women to give readers what they wanted, says curator ...

Dickens works such as the Christmas stories were regularly turned into stage plays during his life, while today most people ...

Desperate for money, the author penned the classic holiday tale in unusually fast fashion only for it to sell out within a ...

Lucy Whitehead, Royal Holloway, University of London A Christmas Carol is usually read as a Victorian morality tale about ...

Many a wintry hour did I hear the church clock strike, when I was sitting in my cheerless bedroom, wrapped in my little great ...

There would certainly be interest on this side of the Atlantic as well. Dickens has been to the United States the year before ...

Around 180 years on, Dickens’s festive ghost story remains one of the sharpest critiques of money, morality and social ...

Oliver Twist was Dickens’ second novel, and my first. My grandmother read it to me and my sister when we were young. We loved the part when meek little orphan Oliver, born out of wedlock in a ...

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-read ...

Anyone who has read the Anne of Green Gables series (bear with me, men) might remember the chapter midway through Anne of the Island when Gilbert Blythe first proposes to Anne. It’s terribly exciting ...

DEVENTER, Netherlands (AP) — The Dutch city of Deventer transformed Saturday into a pocket of 19th-century England, with 950 people in costumes bringing characters from Charles Dickens’ books to life.

And a new biography of Dickens is getting prominent reviews, including front-page billing in The Washington Post Book World. But what’s been missing from the articles I’ve read about these works is ...