The Charles Dickens Birthplace Museum will host a special event on Friday, February 7, to celebrate the 213th anniversary of the famous author's birth. Each year, the museum marks the occasion at ...

After receiving an inheritance, John Dickens was released and Charles was sent to the private Wellington House Academy in North London. He was an average student and left at 15 to work in a ...

Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded as the ...

He wrote in his will "that my name be inscribed in plain English letters on my tomb... I rest my claims to the remembrance of my country upon my published works...". Dickens died at his house, Gad's ...