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We’ve known that Jeremy King – the hospitality brains behind the likes of Brasserie Zédel, The Wolseley and recent Bayswater ...
Whether you call them lollipops, suckers, or sticky-pops, the sweet treats have a surprisingly rich and complex backstory ...
Great news for fans of historical fiction! The Cinemaholic has learnt that actors Kit Harrington and François Civil have been roped in for BBC’s upcoming series ‘A Tale of Two Cities,’ an adaptation ...
Blake Montgomery in “Charles Dickens Begrudgingly Performs ‘A Christmas Carol’ Again” at the Den Theatre. (Joe Mazza) This makes me wonder, why filter the story through Dickens at all?
Eleven letters were acquired by the Charles Dickens Museum in London from a private seller in the United States — a country Dickens visited twice on popular public reading tours.
When Charles Dickens was 12 years old, his father's debts finally caught up with him, and he was sent to the Marshalsea Debtors' Prison. (It was a baker who sent him there.
"It took Charles Dickens to come forward and say, 'Maybe I can use my art to change what I see and what my world has become,'" Jones said. Ebenezer Scrooge is literature's most famous moneygrubber.
When Charles Dickens toured America for the last time, he gave Chicago the cold shoulder, as well as his widowed Chicago sister-and-law. The local press attacked him as a Scrooge and a hypocrite ...
Dickens visited the state in 1842, but he was also a celebrity with a social agenda. You might cringe at the idea of comparing Charles Dickens to Lady Gaga, but he also used the power that comes ...