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.

Early in the winter of 1841 it had been announced that Charles Dickens would ... relating to him and his family was of surpassing interest to them. Mr. Dickens had appointed ten o'clock, on ...

while his mother and younger siblings lived in prison with his father. Dickens realised how important family was and how hard life was for people with little money, like the Cratchits. In 1834 ...

While at Washington an ocean steamer, supposed to have been lost, arrived at New York, and the long-looked-for tidings from home and family ... by Charles Dickens. The driver and his friend ...

The Charles Dickens Birthplace Museum will host a special event on Friday, February 7, to celebrate the 213th anniversary of ...

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 ...

Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol is among his ... Having worked in a factory himself as a boy due to his family’s straitened circumstances, Dickens always felt a kinship with people who ...

Of his personal correspondence, a standout is a draft letter to the family servant ... told the BBC. “Dickens in Doughty Street: 100 Years of the Charles Dickens Museum” is on view at the ...

Instead, it became the Charles Dickens Museum ... letters to friends and family and rare first editions of his most famous works,” per the exhibition website. “But you’ll also encounter ...

Charles Dickens wrote a story for his young children, and now that story is coming our way in the form of The King of Kings.

Prepare yourself for plum puddings, snowy Christmases, and bitterly cold London scenes aplenty in these gorgeous Charles Dickens ... uncle Ralph separates his family after his father’s death ...