When you think of England at Christmastime, what pops into your head? Ancient carols sung by a choir? Figgy pudding? Surely Ebenezer Scrooge, Tiny Tim and the rest of the characters from Charles ...

In 1836 the start of the longest reigning queen of England coincides with the beginning of the career of the greatest British author since Shakespeare Charles Dickens In discovering the characters ...

(RNS) Britain's Prince Charles kicked off a yearlong celebration of Charles Dickens' 200th birthday on Tuesday (Feb. 7) with a wreath-laying ceremony at London's Westminster Abbey. It seems a fitting ...

Colorful caricatures from Charles Dickens' novels have become fixtures of our 21st-century imagination. There is the cunning Artful Dodger, Oliver Twist's swaggering pickpocket; David Copperfield's ...