Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens has laid out his vision for the city this year, and flashed the signs of what his reelection bid will look like, during the annual State of the City address. Instead of the ...

Hans Christian Andersen overstayed his visit to the Dickens family in 1857. Francine Prose has imagined the consequences.

Charles Dickens was a terrific walker. Many nights he roved the streets of London with such insomniac vigor that he might still be striding along as dawn broke in the great skies overhead. Dickens ...

DICKENS was a perfectly lovely historian, especially for small kiddies. He scorned all the dull, milk-and-water pap about people’s shooting apples off the heads of their near and dear ones which ...

In Five Weeks in the Country, author Francine Prose imagines a distressing, ill-timed visit to Charles Dickens' home in 1857 ...

Soon Galveston’s streets will be once again awash in chimney sweeps, Victorian fops, and stately matrons. Father Christmas will probably stop by; Her Majesty the Queen, as always, will have a parade ...