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 ...

Charles Dickens sat in his study circa 1860. Epics/Getty Images Tell us more about the connections you see to current politics in Hard Times. "My bugbear for a long time has been people like ...

Charles Dickens was well ahead of his time and is ... literary genius is his core understanding of human suffering, and Hard Times is a prime example. In this story, Dickens takes an incisive ...

Hard Times (Sunday), with its lean plot and manageable cast of characters, fits like a glove into two allotted hours. This is Dickens’s fiery assault on a worldview which knows the price of ...

The second of eight children, Charles John Huffam Dickens was born in February 1812 ... Bleak House and Hard Times. He also kept Catherine busy with their 10 children. In June 1865, Dickens ...

Ellen "Nelly" Ternan, in 1870, was a figure lost to history. Charles Dickens Museum In 1953, when future biographer Claire Tomalin was studying English literature at Cambridge, she came across ...

John Yorke unpacks the themes behind each of the three Dickensian dramas, beginning with Hard Times. Charles Dickens’ novel Hard Times is set in a northern factory town at the height of the ...