Perhaps the strongest argument for Great Expectations as evidence of Dickens’ potential as a videogame writer are its ...

As Charles Dickens lay in his coffin, his will was read out to the assembled mourners. ‘I conjure my friends,’ he sternly ...

Dickens died at his house ... Public opinion, led by The Times newspaper, demanded that Westminster Abbey was the only place for the burial of someone of his distinction. Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, Dean ...

The eldest son of Elizabeth and John Dickens was born in February 1812 ... “no public announcement be made of the time or place of my burial,” hundreds of thousands of people lined up to ...

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Upon his mother’s death, John Dickens inherited £450, freeing him from the Marshalsea. Despite this, Charles’ mother ... the following day at Gads Hill Place, precisely five years after ...

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It was revealed that April was pregnant and living in a slum with a rag-tag pair of friends, one of whom was stabbed to death and another ... have questioned the 'Charles Dickens' turn of events ...

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