The Extra/Ordinary Women exhibition offers insights to many of these women. His wife, Catherine Dickens, who also wrote ...

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 ...

Gerald Charles Dickens, great-great-grandson of the famous British novelist, will perform "Mr. Dickens is Coming!," a solo show about his ancestor's love of theater and performance, 7 p.m. Sept. 21, ...

Seventy years ago, in 1954, the late critic Eleanor Farjeon wrote an introduction to “Christmas Books by Charles Dickens” in which she stated of the five books, “The Cricket on the Hearth” (written in ...