Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens to Thomas Beard, Devonshire Terrace, June 21, 1849 (detail)
Charles Dickens's Summer Holiday Letters Go On Show
The Charles Dickens Museum today reveals the author's views on summer in the city, his favourite holidays and ingenious efforts to cool off during a hot Bri
The copy of Winnie-the-Pooh inscribed by Milne on the front free endpaper
A. A. Milne Inscribed Pooh Books Lead Gorringe's Auction
The Pickwick Papers, A. A. Milne's Pooh books, Jonathan Swift, and Samuel Johnson's Dictionary will all go under the hammer at Gorringe’s next month.
Mr. William Shakespear's Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies. Published according to the true Original Copies. Unto which is added, SEVEN PLAYS, Never before Printed in Folio (London: Printed [by Robert Roberts, Robert Everingham, and John Macock] for H[enry]. Herringman, and are to be sold by Joseph Knight and Francis Saunders, at the Anchor in the Lower Walk of the New Exchange, 1685). Sold for $140,800
Unrecorded Shakespeare Fourth Folio Tops Freeman's Two Day Books Sale
Leading the latest Freeman’s Books and Manuscripts sales was The Library of Stephen J.
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BBC Announces Major New Series on Charles Dickens for National Year of Reading
A new three-part BBC television series will explores the life and inspirations of the novelist, journalist and social campaigner
Silk stockings belonging to Charles Dickens
Rare Charles Dickens Clothing Goes on Show
Some of the very few surviving pieces of clothing belonging to Charles Dickens will go on show later this week in a new display at the Charles Dickens Museum in London.
Little Nell – the beautiful child in her gentle slumber- tide by Samuel Williams. Through her deathbed scene, Dickens channelled his grief for the death of his 17-year-old sister-in-law, Mary Hogarth. Dickens’s feedback to Williams was to make Nell childish and her surroundings grim to create a starker contrast.
Unpublished Charles Dickens Fan Letter Opens New Exhibition on Women in His Life
A new exhibition opening today at the London home of Charles Dickens brings tog
Robert Seymour, The March of Intellect (London, 1828)
Development of Technology Through History of Printing at the Grolier
A new exhibition at The Grolier Club explores the evolution of technology and its impact on labor through a close look at the history of printing.
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Machiavelli, A Christmas Carol, and The Velveteen Rabbit at Bellmans
A first edition, first issue of Charles Dickens's 1843 A Christmas Carol
The festive dining room table at the Charles Dickens Museum
Special Festive Christmas Displays at Charles Dickens Museum
Christmas celebrations are already underway at the Charles Dickens Museum in London which is the home in which Dickens himself and his family celebrated yul
Charles Dickens (centre) during rehearsals for his own play, Mr Nightingale’s Diary performed at Tavistock House in 1855. On the left is Mark Lemon, editor of Punch magazine, on the right is either Wilkie Collins or illustrator Frank Stone.
Unseen Sketches of Charles Dickens in Play Rehearsals Go On Display For First Time
An unpublished set of pen, ink, and watercolour sketches showing Charles Dickens and hi