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 (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 ...

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 ...

Seven Dials, in central London, was synonymous with poverty and crime, a black hole to most Londoners. Charles Dickens stormed it with pen and paper. The Print Collector / Alamy Seven Dials, in ...