The eldest son of Elizabeth and John Dickens was born in February 1812 on Portsea Island in the British city of Portsmouth, and moved around with his family in his younger years to Yorkshire and ...

I rest my claims to the remembrance of my country upon my published works...". Dickens died at his house, Gad's Hill Place, near Rochester in Kent and it was presumed that he would be buried at ...

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 ...

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Plymouth has been revealed as a hotspot for cases of a Dickensian superbug, as cases soar in 2025. More than 5,000 people across the UK were diagnosed with tuberculosis last year alone ...

She particularly sought out places mentioned in Dickens's fiction and wrote in her diary that she "felt as if I'd got into a novel". Alcott was an enormous fan of Dickens, capable of quoting long ...

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Charles Dickens, the great British novelist, was born on February 7, 1812. In 1858, the author of "A Christmas Carol" visited Ireland while on a book tour. Dickens, a literary genius, is said to ...

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