Adapted from Mark Evans’ BBC radio play Bleak Expectations is a spoof on all things Dickensian and it is on its way to the ...

The production will feature all-original songs and a vibrant new interpretation designed to resonate with today’s audiences.

Blake Montgomery in “Charles Dickens Begrudgingly Performs ‘A Christmas Carol’ Again” at the Den Theatre. (Joe Mazza) This makes me wonder, why filter the story through Dickens at all?

“Dickens was constantly analyzing the relationship between transportation and society,” said Grossman, author of the new book “Charles Dickens’s Networks, Public Transport and the Novel.” ...

Charles Dickens’ desire to keep secret an affair with a young actress helped lead him, in 1860, to light a bonfire and burn 20 years’ worth of his letters and papers.

Eleven letters were acquired by the Charles Dickens Museum in London from a private seller in the United States — a country Dickens visited twice on popular public reading tours.

Dickens visited the state in 1842, but he was also a celebrity with a social agenda. You might cringe at the idea of comparing Charles Dickens to Lady Gaga, but he also used the power that comes ...

This Feb. 6, we celebrate Charles Dickens, the novelist and literary superstar of his day. He may well have been the first celebrity spokesman for a medical charity. The cause was London’s Great ...

Charles Dickens loved puzzles. The British novelist, who died in 1870 at age 58, often wrote in a shorthand only he understood—he called it "the devil's handwriting" and a "savage stenographic ...

Mrs. Dickens was accompanied by her favorite waiting-maid, Ann—a warm-hearted English girl,—I believe London born and bred,—and devotedly attached to the family.