Charles John Huffam Dickens was born on ... On the basis of the success of Sketches by Boz, Dickens was approached by the publishers Chapman and Hall to write text to accompany engraved ...

Mr. Dickens had left England an invalid ... They brought from England a large pencil-drawing of their four children, "Charles, Walter, Kate, and Mary," made by their friend Maclise, the eminent ...

Charles Dickens first visited the United States and Canada for six months in 1842, arriving in New York City with his first wife Catherine on January 31, 1842. He was only 30 years old, but had ...

Throughout his role, he published various ‘Sketches by ... an interwoven narrative, Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities follows the lives of one exiled aristocrat, Charles Darnay, and a lawyer ...

He then continued to write these sketches of “everyday life ... a glamorous banker’s daughter two years Dickens’ senior. When she was 21, Charles told her he loved her – and she called ...

Fortunately, much of Charles Dickens’s literary backdrop remains accessible today. It is still possible to tread in the footsteps of the author and his beloved characters and visit some of the ...