After Charles Dickens’s death in 1870, the first biographer to narrate his life and career was his closest friend. John Forster’s “The Life of Charles Dickens,” published in 1872, served for many ...

Charleston, SC, March 27, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- As a founder member of the Royal Shakespeare Company and a member of the Dickens Fellowship, Roger Jerome has long held Charles Dickens in high ...

In 1842, British author Charles Dickens was a “rock star” of his generation. Only 30 years old at the time, he was famous for such works as "The Pickwick Papers," "The Adventures of Oliver Twist," ...

Charles Dickens published his first story in a London monthly at age 22. Although he wasn’t paid and it appeared without his name, he was so overcome with joy and pride it took him half an hour to ...

Cardiff University provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation UK. When Charles Dickens died on June 9 1870, newspapers on both sides of the Atlantic framed his loss as an event of ...

CHARLES DICKENS: HIS TRAGEDY AND TRIUMPH (1,158 pp.)—Edgar Johnson—Simon & Schuster ($10). For all its 1,158 pages, Edgar Johnson’s critical biography of Charles Dickens is the definitive treatment of ...

Scholar of Charles Dickens who wrote a definitive biography and shone a light on the writer’s more neglected works Michael Slater, who has died aged 88, was an expert on the life and writings of ...