Oh, why?". But the sights and sounds of 'Dickens' London' — along with more traditional destinations like the Tower of London, St Paul's and Windsor Castle — filled her with delight.

A copy of David Copperfield read by Captain Scott while trapped in an ice cave and the room where Dickens wrote Oliver Twist are on show at ...

Heralded as one of the best—if not the best—novelists of the Victorian era, Charles Dickens longed for fame from an early age ...

These follicular insights are just the tip of the toupee at the Charles Dickens Museum's new show. "Dickens in Doughty Street: 100 Years of the Charles Dickens Museum" is the long but self-explanatory ...

A copy of David Copperfield read by Captain Scott's Terra Nova expedition while stranded in an ice cave, and a handwritten manuscript of Oliver Twist are among the items marking 100 years of ...

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