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

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 ...

Of the making of books by, about, from, around, among, between — pick your preposition — Charles Dickens, there apparently is no end. He wrote constantly, published promiscuously, lived intensely, ...

Novels only ‘reinforced Victorian stereotypes’ of meek women to give readers what they wanted, says curator Charles Dickens’s female characters have often been criticised as being too meek, compliant ...

CHARLES DICKENS (488 pp.)—Dame Una Pope-Hennessy—Howell, Soskin ($4). Someone once compared Critic John Forster to a pencil stub—”short, thick, and full of lead.” In writing his classic Life of ...