London’s Charles Dickens Museum has received a £780,000 ($1.2 million) grant from the National Heritage Memorial Fund to purchase the renowned writer’s desk and chair, which he used at his final home ...

The Charles Dickens Museum in London will celebrate its 100th birthday by offering free entry to his former home and a chance to meet the author's living descendants. Visitors on 9 June will find a ...

LONDON – Charles Dickens' London home has gone from "Bleak House" to "Great Expectations." For years, the four-story brick row house where the author lived with his young family was a dusty and ...

The Charles Dickens Museum is celebrating its anniversary by displaying rare books, artworks, letters, artifacts and other unique historical objects connected to the 19th-century author. Mondadori ...

Unpublished sketches that bring Charles Dickens’ “world and character to life” have gone on display for the first time. A one-off set of pen, ink and watercolour sketches of the English playwright can ...

In 1843, the artist Margaret Gillies painted a miniature portrait of a wide-eyed, chestnut-haired Charles Dickens. Though he was only 31 years old at the time, Dickens was already the celebrated ...

LONDON — Handwritten letters by one of Britain’s most famous authors, Charles Dickens, will go on public display for the first time this week, giving a fresh insight into the Victorian writer’s life ...

Curators hold an unfinished portrait of Charles Dickens by Samuel Laurence.PA Images via Getty Images A letter written by Charles Dickens, discussing the publication of Oliver Twist in America.PA ...

The official opening of the museum on 9 June 1925, where the Rt. Hon. The Earl of Birkenhead addressed the crowd: "I cannot help thinking that he would have cherished the knowledge... that the house ...