Tag Archives: Charles Dickens

‘The Chimes’ – Charles Dickens’ New Year’s ‘Carol’

By Paul Hechinger | Posted on December 31st, 2012

Detail of 1845 frontispiece illustration by Daniel Maclise for 'The Chimes'. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London)

Charles Dickens’ most famous contribution to the reinvention of Christmas as we know it is, of course, A Christmas Carol, which we pointed out last week is the most frequently adapted work in all of English literature.

Charles Dickens – Thank You Very Much!

By Paul Hechinger | Posted on December 25th, 2012

Charles Dickens, circa 1860s (Heritage Auction Gallery)

A Christmas Carol, wrote Paul Davis, author of The Lives & Times of Ebenezer Scrooge, “has been adapted, revised, condensed, retold, reoriginated and modernized more than any other work of English literature.”

Happy 50th Birthday Ralph Fiennes!

By Brigid Brown | Posted on December 22nd, 2012

Ralph Fiennes turns 50 today. Happy Birthday!

These days Fiennes is known to children, and adults, worldwide as “the name we do not speak” (Lord Valdemort) in the Harry Potter franchise.

Watch: Helena Bonham Carter And Ralph Fiennes In Mike Newell’s ‘Great Expectations’

By Fraser McAlpine | Posted on August 14th, 2012

I wasn’t going to make any explicit link between the cast of this, director Mike Newell’s new adaptation of the startling Charles Dickens story Great Expections, and the cast of the Harry Potter films. There are a great many ...

10 Great British Things That Happened While Civil War Raged in America

By Fraser McAlpine | Posted on August 10th, 2012

This is not an article claiming to recognise any higher truths about the futility of war, specifically war during the Victorian Era. How could it?

Royal Roundup: The Queen Presides Over the Dickens of a Celebration

By Paul Hechinger | Posted on February 14th, 2012

Queen Elizabeth takes after Queen Victoria in at least one way – Britain’s current ruling monarch, like her great-great-grandmother, is also an admirer of Charles Dickens.

Dickens Birthday Roundup: Mutual Fans Have Hard Times Keeping Up With the Day’s Great Expectations

By Paul Hechinger | Posted on February 8th, 2012

Members of the Pickwick Bicycle Club outside the Charles Dickens Birthplace Museum in Portsmouth on the author’s 200th birthday. (Chris Ison, Press Association/AP Images)

“The whole country seems to have gone mad with Dickens,” says A.N.

WATCH: Dame Helen Mirren on Why Charles Dickens Endures

By staff | Posted on February 7th, 2012

As we celebrate the 200th birthday of Charles Dickens, we hear from Dame Helen Mirren herself on why the author’s work remains relevant. (Interview by Tom Brook.)

Five Ways You Can Celebrate Charles Dickens’ 200th Birthday

By Paul Hechinger | Posted on February 6th, 2012

“We meet on this day,” Charles Dickens said in a speech marking the tricentennial anniversary of William Shakespeare‘s birth, “to celebrate the birthday of a vast army of living men and women who will live for ever ...