Marley was dead to begin with. There is no doubt whatsoever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner. Scrooge signed it, and ...

And a new biography of Dickens is getting prominent reviews, including front-page billing in The Washington Post Book World. But what’s been missing from the articles I’ve read about these works is ...

A presentation of the holiday play, written by Joy Lanzendorfer and Marcia Simmons, will take place at Mercury Theater.

Lucy Keirl and Conor Neaves agree that being at the Octagon in Bolton for the festive period is really special. But as two of ...

King Charles was praised for pulling the 'perfect' pint of Guinness during his visit to mark the launch the Guinness Open ...

He didn’t sit down to write a nice moral fable extolling the Christmas spirit. Among other things, he needed to make money to ...

Dickens works such as the Christmas stories were regularly turned into stage plays during his life, while today most people ...

Charles Dickens trained many to hate capitalism, but he never understood the difference between envious hatred of wealth and ...

A Christmas Carol is usually read as a Victorian morality tale about capitalism and compassion. Yet an autographed script ...

"The moment when you want to quit is the moment when you need to keep pushing." This quote by Charles Dickens emphasizes the importance of perseverance in the face of adversity. Dickens believed that ...

There would certainly be interest on this side of the Atlantic as well. Dickens has been to the United States the year before ...