Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol is among ... Tiny Tim was inspired by Dickens’ family members It took Dickens just six weeks to write A Christmas Carol, which came in at less than 30,000 ...

Greg Jenner talks about Charles Dickens' tough upbringing. 1. The Dickens family crest was not the Dickens family crest Charles was born in 1812, but his family were not in any way posh.

Heralded as one of the best—if not the best—novelists of the Victorian era, Charles Dickens longed for fame from an early age ...

Only twelve mourners attended, made up of family and close friends, together with the Abbey clergy. So Dickens was buried in the almost empty and silent Abbey, the funeral service from the 1662 Book ...

Looking at the marriage of Charles Dickens through the eyes of his wife, Catherine, Sue Perkins exposes the lesser known reality of the Dickens family Christmas - very different from the heart ...