Charles Dickens
As Rare Book Week draws near, I find myself scrolling through booksellers’ preview catalogues and lists for the
The Charles Dickens Museum in London has acquired a substantial private collection of Dickens material from the U.S., including 144 handwritten letters by t
Successful writers have long been adept at self-promotion – indeed, Stendhal even suggested that “Great success is not possible without a certain degree of shamelessness.” Taking advantage of the l
Charles Dickens has become synonymous with Christmas, but a new exhibition at his Victorian house museum in London shows that his relationship with the festive season was not all sweetness and ligh
Our holiday edition roundup of books about books focused exclusively on splashy, illustrated non-fiction,
Charles Dickens was no teetotaler, as this 1870 manuscript record of his spirits cellar makes clear.
Charles Dickens was one of the first global literary superstars who finessed his personal brand with a careful eye on an international reading public – indeed, a tenth of the books in his private l
