Returning to the Cow Palace for its 36th year, the Great Dickens Christmas Fair & Victorian Holiday Party has kicked off once again for several weekends (November 22 - December 21) of mulled wine and ...

For some Bay Area residents, it's not Christmas until they've taken a stroll through the streets of Victorian London. The Great Dickens Christmas Fair, in its 35th season, is a celebration of all ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- The Great Dickens Christmas Fair transforms San Francisco into the world of Charles Dickens. It is a Christmas event unlike any other in the world. RELATED: A Holiday Wonderland the ...

The Victorian London scenes vividly described in Charles Dickens' work are being celebrated in a major exhibition at the Museum of London which marks the 200th anniversary of the author's birth. Here ...

Victorian London was a magical era, with orphans cementing their pickpocketing skills while Jack the Ripper eviscerated prostitutes. Despite this, San Francisco’s own annual Dickens Christmas Fair ...

HOUSTON — The Victorian-themed holiday celebration in Galveston returns this weekend. Dickens on the Strand takes visitors back in time to Victorian London celebrating Charles Dickens and a time ...

Charles Dickens grimly portrayed Londoners as people resigned to hardscrabble living, ubiquitous filth, and prevalent violence, and Flanders (The Invention of Murder) successfully recreates the feel ...

LONDON (Reuters Life!) - At his writing desk in a central London townhouse the young Charles Dickens penned some of the novels that made this name as an author and set him on the path of becoming an ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- The Great Dickens Christmas Fair transforms San Francisco into the world of Charles Dickens. It is a Christmas event unlike any other in the world. RELATED: A Holiday Wonderland the ...