Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol is among his ... Not only was he married with a fifth child on the way, his father was also in a financial drain. Dickens figured a successful Christmas ...

Heralded as one of the best—if not the best—novelists of the Victorian era, Charles Dickens longed for fame from an early age. And, after a difficult childhood beset by financial troubles ...

People all over the world enjoy his stories. He lived in the Victorian age. Almost 200 years ago, Charles Dickens wrote a story about a little boy who had nothing. The boy was called Oliver Twist.

Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton was a popular novelist, playwright, journalist, politician, and friend of Charles Dickens, who named his youngest child for him. Lytton's A Strange Story was serialized during ...