Scholar of Charles Dickens who wrote a definitive biography and shone a light on the writer’s more neglected works ...

Catherine Peters, who has died aged 94, had a lauded academic career that only began when she was 50; The King of Inventors (2016), is the standard life of Wilkie Collins, and she also wrote ...

Inside: Free printable Charles Dickens Biography page to use learning about Dickens. As we’ve been diving into learning about Charles Dickens and reading A Christmas Carol this December, I decided to ...

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, served for many ...

Cardiff University provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation UK. When Charles Dickens died on June 9 1870, newspapers on both sides of the Atlantic framed his loss as an event of ...

CHARLES DICKENS: HIS TRAGEDY AND TRIUMPH (1,158 pp.)—Edgar Johnson—Simon & Schuster ($10). For all its 1,158 pages, Edgar Johnson’s critical biography of Charles Dickens is the definitive treatment of ...