LONDON (Reuters Life!) - At his writing desk in a central London townhouse the young Charles Dickens penned some of the novels that made this name as an author and set him on the path of becoming an ...

Ever wished you could travel back to the mean streets of Victorian London, the one described by the era’s most beloved writer, Charles Dickens? One place to start would be the townhouse at 48 Doughty ...

LONDON (AP) — Charles Dickens' London home has gone from Bleak House to Great Expectations. For years, the four-story brick row house where the author lived with his young family was a dusty and ...

LONDON (Reuters) - The former London home of Charles Dickens reopened on Monday, after an eight-month, 3.1 million-pound ($5 million) refurbishment celebrating the author's bicentenary. Dickens lived ...

A fan letter from Charles Dickens to a female opera singer has gone on display at his London home. The 1863 letter was to Pauline Viardot with the author suggesting they meet for dinner, also ...

An exhibition explores the authors’ love of theatre, highlighting the dramatic impact of his works As a sliding doors moment, it leads to arguably one of the greatest “what if?” questions in literary ...