When the weather turns dreary, my mind tends to take a mental vacation . . . by planning a dream getaway. If you’re the same—or if you’re lucky enough to, you know, be planning an actual vacation—you ...

In 1866, journalist Andrew Halliday led his readers on a guided tour of one of London's foremost card manufacturers - to reveal how emotions were being 'manufactured.' ...

The Prince Charles Cinema (PCC) has come out swinging in its fight against closure, but the threat still remains.The iconic ...

You wouldn’t necessarily recognize it as from the genius of Victorian writing ... personal style, interests and passions.” “Dickens in Doughty Street: 100 Years of the Charles Dickens ...

Remembering a life-altering conversation with the singer, songwriter, actor, and ultimate '60s icon, who died yesterday at 78 ...

Amazon will be closing the Kindle Vella service at the end of the year, but there are plenty of other services that offer ...

From the Brontë sisters to Kurt Vonnegut to Zora Neale Hurston, these are the best classic books to add to your TBR this year ...

In Notes from Underground,” Frank asserts, the writing explodes and implodes and all the time the writer is trapped inside it, not only unable to get out, but unable to see what he has gotten himself ...

Welcome to the Town Peddler Craft and Antique Mall in Livonia, Michigan – a treasure trove that’s part time machine, part shopper’s paradise. Welcome to the Town Peddler, where nostalgia comes with a ...

A new exhibition celebrates 100 years of the Charles Dickens Museum. Behold! Dickens with a moustache! What do we reckon? "A hideous disfigurement," was the verdict of the author's friend and ...

When his father was called to London again to be a clerk in the Naval Pay Office, the elder Dickens amassed so much debt that the entire family—except for Charles ... of his writing, and he ...

and author Charles Dickens for £14,950,000, or $18.6 million. Built in 1753, the Grade II listed mansion on Charles Street became the home of British Foreign Secretary James Harris (1807-1889), or the ...