Of the making of books by, about, from, around, among, between — pick your preposition — Charles Dickens, there apparently is no end. He wrote constantly, published promiscuously, lived intensely, ...

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 ...

Ever wished you could travel back to the mean streets of Victorian London, the one described by the era’s most beloved writer, Charles Dickens? One place to start would be the townhouse at 48 Doughty ...

If you celebrate Christmas, chances are you've adapted some traditions that were popularized in the mid-1800s by one author: Charles Dickens. Even if you don't celebrate Christmas, it's hard to ignore ...

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 ...

CHARLES DICKENS (488 pp.)—Dame Una Pope-Hennessy—Howell, Soskin ($4). Someone once compared Critic John Forster to a pencil stub—”short, thick, and full of lead.” In writing his classic Life of ...