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 ...

Patten, emeritus professor of English at Rice University and author of "Dickens, Death and Christmas" (Oxford ... So it's worth remembering that Charles Dickens wrote the original story with ...

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Charles Dickens ... centuries earlier. Dickens was a young man when he began plucking characters from that crowded head of his, and by the time his career ended with his death at 58 he had ...

In “The Life and Lies of Charles Dickens,” Helena Kelly revisits the image the author crafted so carefully in his lifetime. Credit...Rischgitz/Hulton Archive, via Getty Images Supported by By ...

The letter was written by Dickens' son Charlie shortly after the author's death in 1870 A letter sent by Charles Dickens' son shortly after the author's death is to go on display. The letter ...