Charles Dickens’ last remaining child, Henry Fielding Dickens, willed the story’s fate to remaining family members after his own death. Published in 1934, it remains obscure. “It’s not like one of his ...

Among Austen’s close contemporaries, Walter Scott – now little read or adapted – was seen as inestimably more worthy, not ...

The lineage of the English comic novel, for instance, runs smoothly from Fielding to Dickens, Dickens to P.G. Wodehouse ... Her day-to-day life and surroundings, too, are convincingly rendered. Henry ...

A new exhibition celebrates 100 years of the Charles Dickens Museum. Behold! Dickens with a moustache! What do we reckon? "A hideous disfigurement," was the verdict of the author's friend and ...

When he was a young engineer, Derrick Dickens frequently heard that he didn’t fit the stereotype. “I didn’t have a pocket protector. I didn’t have the nerdy glasses,” he jokes.

I rest my claims to the remembrance of my country upon my published works...". Dickens died at his house, Gad's Hill Place, near Rochester in Kent and it was presumed that he would be buried at ...

The town also boats a quaint historic district, which hosts a Charles Dickens-themed festival each December. The historic district boasts a wealth of well-preserved 19th century buildings and has ...

The eldest son of Elizabeth and John Dickens was born in February 1812 on Portsea Island in the British city of Portsmouth, and moved around with his family in his younger years to Yorkshire and ...

ROANOKE RAPIDS — Henry Lassiter Dickens, 85, of Roanoke Rapids, passed away peacefully on Friday, Feb. 7, 2025, with his wife by his side. He was preceded in death by his parents, Henry ...

The creator of Bridget Jones, who grew up on Jane Austen and Jackie Collins, has no patience for “snobbery about escapist ...

Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens threw his support behind a moratorium on homeless encampment clearings on Friday, amid calls for changes to the city’s homeless strategy after a sweep by city workers ...

By Maya Phillips A young prince and an old knight walk into a tavern … So much of Shakespeare’s “Henry IV” plays like a setup, either to a joke or to a significant turning point in English ...