Pictured is Galveston’s Victorian-themed street festival, Dickens on The Strand. Starting on Friday evening, walking through downtown Galveston will feel as though time has slipped back to the ...
Novels only ‘reinforced Victorian stereotypes’ of meek women to give readers what they wanted, says curator ...
HOUSTON — The Victorian-themed holiday celebration in Galveston returns this weekend. Dickens on the Strand takes visitors back in time to Victorian London celebrating Charles Dickens and a time ...
For some Bay Area residents, it's not Christmas until they've taken a stroll through the streets of Victorian London. The Great Dickens Christmas Fair, in its 35th season, is a celebration of all ...
Charles Dickens grimly portrayed Londoners as people resigned to hardscrabble living, ubiquitous filth, and prevalent violence, and Flanders (The Invention of Murder) successfully recreates the feel ...
SAN FRANCISCO -- The Great Dickens Christmas Fair transforms San Francisco into the world of Charles Dickens. It is a Christmas event unlike any other in the world. RELATED: A Holiday Wonderland the ...
In September 1777, Samuel Johnson declared to his friend James Boswell, "When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life." Johnson actually was referring to his hectic social calendar, but he did ...
SAN FRANCISCO -- The Great Dickens Christmas Fair transforms San Francisco into the world of Charles Dickens. It is a Christmas event unlike any other in the world. RELATED: A Holiday Wonderland the ...