Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens by William Powell Frith This was a man who, though not more than thirty, had seen the world in divers irreconcilable capacities—had been an officer in a South American regiment among other odd things—but had not achieved much in any way of life, and was in debt, and in hiding. He occupied chambers of the dreariest nature in Lyons Inn; his name, however, was not up on the door, or door-post, but in lieu of it stood the name of a friend who had died in the chambers, and had…

Charles Dickens has been brought to life in a series of striking new images going on show in a flagship exhibition.

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Charles Dickens writes with a quill at his desk in 1858. He wrote everything by hand, from 9am to 2pm every day. Writing inspiration.

The writer Laurence Scott discusses the omnipresence of prisons in the works of Charles Dickens and proposes a possible cause for their ubiquity.

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This is a luster photo print of a black ink portrait of Charles Dickens that was drawn on an old and yellowed dictionary page containing his name.

Collage of Charles Dickens