TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers ... in its original form through TimesMachine. --Charles Dickens was a very little and a very sickly boy, but ...

Heralded as one of the best—if not the best—novelists of the Victorian era, Charles Dickens longed for fame from an early age. And, after a difficult childhood beset by financial troubles, he set out ...

It's thought that in his books Dickens played down many of its horrors for fear of upsetting the Victorian constitution. After receiving an inheritance, John Dickens was released and Charles was ...

Despite dying over 100 years before the release of Pong, the novelist Charles Dickens has connections ... Both he and Estella are childhood wards of Miss Havisham, and in adulthood, a man named ...

John Dickens’ salary as a clerk didn’t match his love of luxuries and socialising. In early 1824, when Charles was 12 ... in and out of school during his childhood, he finally found work ...

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 ...