‘I’m no deid yet!’ says Miriam Margolyes, channeling her dad’s Glasgow accent as she points out that she’s still alive and ...

North Carolina State University is among the recipients of a grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the ...

Performances of a country music icon's musical have been scheduled for the Tri-State during the 2025 holiday season.Dolly ...

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.

"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.

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?

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 ...

Mrs. Dickens was accompanied by her favorite waiting-maid, Ann—a warm-hearted English girl,—I believe London born and bred,—and devotedly attached to the family.

Charles Dickens never stepped foot in Galveston. When the Victorian writer spent several months venturing across the U.S. and Canada to write his travelogue American Notes in 1842, he mainly ...

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 ...

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.