A period drama based on one of Charles Dickens' most renowned novels has been branded outstanding by BBC viewers ...

As Dickens' affair deepened, he wrote what he considered his best novel, "Great Expectations." At the New York Public Library, Liz Denlinger showed Mason the checks he received as payment: The sum ...

Charles Dickens loved puzzles. The British novelist, who died in 1870 at age 58, often wrote in a shorthand only he understood—he called it "the devil's handwriting" and a "savage stenographic ...

While Dickens didn't create Christmas, he changed the narrative by popularizing empathy for those less fortunate and spending the time with family -- or what we know as the holiday spirit.

Mr. Dickens had appointed ten o'clock, on the Tuesday morning succeeding his arrival, for his first sitting to Alexander. The artist's rooms were at No. 41 Tremont Row, not far from the Tremont House.