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A new exhibition celebrates 100 years of the Charles Dickens Museum. Behold! Dickens with a moustache! What do we reckon? "A hideous disfigurement," was the verdict of the author's friend and ...

Enter the world of Charles Dickens in an London exhibition of portraits, private letters, rare manuscripts at the author's former residence.

Dreams of a white Christmas were planted by Charles Dickens, Victorian mass media and the Little Ice Age, historians say.

DEVENTER, Netherlands — The Dutch city of Deventer transformed Saturday into a pocket of 19th-century England, with 950 people in costumes bringing characters from Charles Dickens&rsquo ...

It’s a fun premise, though unevenly executed: Dickens must perform his 171st annual reading of “A Christmas Carol.” And he’s sick of it.

The famed author Charles Dickens visited Cincinnati in April 1842. He wrote in his travelogue of America that Cincinnati was a “beautiful city.” ...