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Charles Dickens entry at Wikipedia
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Charles Dickens credits as writer [340 titles since 1897] at Internet Movie Database
character 'Charles Dickens' credits [55 titles since 1916] at Internet Movie Database
Charles Dickens credits at Internet Broadway Database: 42 shows since 1860

Works  About  Charles  Dickens

"Life of Charles Dickens: With Personal Recollections and Anecdotes, Letters by 'Boz' Never Before Published,
and Prose and Verse - with Portrait and Autograph" [1870] by Robert Shelton Mackenzie

"Charles Dickens: A Sketch of His Life and Work" [1870] by F.B. Perkins

"The Life of Charles Dickens" official biography [1875] by John Forster

"Dickens (English Men of Letters Series)" biography [1882] by Adolphus William Ward
http://www.amazon.com/Dickens-Life-Work-Charles-Annotated-ebook/dp/B00629ZF9E/

"Dickensiana: A Bibliography of The Literature Relating To Charles Dickens and His Writings" [1886] by Frederic G. Kitton
http://www.amazon.com/Dickensiana-Bibliography-Literature-Relating-Writings/dp/1407674803/
http://www.amazon.com/Dickensiana-Bibliography-Literature-Relating-Writings/dp/B004EUCRRG/
http://www.amazon.com/Dickensiana-Frederic-G-Kitton/dp/0838309852/
http://www.archive.org/details/dickensianabibli00kittrich

"The Life of Charles Dickens" [1887] by Sir Frank Thomas Marzials
http://www.amazon.com/Charles-Dickens-Frank-Thomas-Marzials-ebook/dp/B004TQK1JG/

"My Father As I Recall Him" [1897] by Mamie Dickens
http://www.amazon.com/My-Father-Recall-Him-Remembered/dp/148267694X/

"Charles Dickens: A Critical Study" [1898] by George Gissing
http://www.amazon.com/Charles-Dickens-Critical-George-Gissing/dp/1169261205/

"Dickens and His Illustrators" [1898] by Frederic G. Kitton
http://www.amazon.com/Dickens-His-Illustrators-Frederic-Kitton/dp/1410212661/
http://www.amazon.com/Dickens-His-Illustrators-Cruikshank-Cattermole/dp/B002LYV6RE/

"Dickens As An Art Critic" [1891] by Frederic G. Kitton

"The Life of Charles Dickens: His Life, Writings, and Personality" [1902] by Frederic G. Kitton
http://www.amazon.com/Charles-Dickens-Frederic-George-Kitton/dp/1904995020/

"Dickens' London" [1904] by M.F. Mansfield
http://www.amazon.com/Dickens-London-Milburg-Francisco-Mansfield-ebook/dp/B004TRHDMI/
http://www.amazon.com/Dickens-London-Francis-Miltoun-Mansfield/dp/1849022828/

"Charles Dickens: A Critical Study" [1906] by G.K. Chesterton [1874-1936]
http://www.amazon.com/Charles-Chesterton-Unexpurgated-Biography-ebook/dp/B004J1701S/

"Appreciations and Criticisms of The Works of Charles Dickens" [1911] by G.K. Chesterton [1874-1936]

"The Dickens Country" [1911] by Frederic G. Kitton
http://www.amazon.com/Dickens-Country-Frederic-George-Kitton/dp/1115684531/

"Dickens As An Educator" [1913] by James L. Hughes
http://www.amazon.com/Dickens-Educator-James-Laughlin-Hughes/dp/B00A8ZWDHK/

"Charles Dickens, 1812–1870" [Chatto & Windus 1945] by Una Pope-Hennessy

"Dickens: His Character, Comedy & Career" biography [1949] by Hesketh Pearson Four Square Books mass pb [1964] out of print/used Sterling Publng 7¾x5 pb [4/88] out of print/used Harper & Bros. 8¼x6 hardcover [1949] out of print/used

"Charles Dickens: His Tragedy and Triumph" in two volumes [Simon & Schuster 1952] by Edgar Johnson

"The World of Charles Dickens" [Penguin Books 1972] by Angus Wilson ISBN 978-0-670-02026-3

"Charles Dickens and His Original Illustrators" [Ohio State Univ Press 1980] by Jane R. Cohen ISBN 978-0-8142-0284-5

"Dickens and Women" [Stanford Univ Press 1983] by Michael Slater ISBN 978-0-8047-1180-7

"Dickens and The Dialectic of Growth" [Univ Wisconsin Press 1986] by Badri Raina ISBN 978-0-299-10610-2

Fred Kaplan’s 1988 biography

"Charles Dickens' Childhood" [1988] by Michael Allen

"Dickens" [Sinclair-Stevenson 1990] by Peter Ackroyd ISBN 1-85619-000-5

"Charles Dickens: The Uses of Time" [Susquehanna Univ Press 1994] by James E. Marlow ISBN 978-0-945636-48-9

"Shakespeare and Dickens: The Dynamics of Influence" [6/1996] by Valerie L. Gager
http://www.amazon.com/Shakespeare-Dickens-Influence-Valerie-Gager/dp/052145526X/

"Charles Dickens, A to Z" [Facts On File 1998] by Paul Davis ISBN 978-0-8160-2905-1

"Dissenting Women In Dickens' Novels: The Subversion of Domestic Ideology" [7/1998] by Brenda Ayres
http://www.amazon.com/Dissenting-Women-Dickens-Novels-Contributions/dp/0313307636/

"Dickens, Novel Reading, and The Victorian Popular Theatre" [Oxford Univ Press 1998]
by Deborah Vlock ISBN 978-0-521-64084-8

"Charles Dickens: Family History" [Routledge 1999] by Norman Page ISBN 978-0-415-22233-4

"Dickens Redressed: The Art of Bleak House and Hard Times" [7/2000] by Alexander Welsh
http://www.amazon.com/Dickens-Redressed-Bleak-House-Times/dp/0300082037/

"Unequal Partners: Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, and Victorian Authorship" [12/2001] by Lillian Nayder
http://www.amazon.com/Unequal-Partners-Charles-Victorian-Authorship/dp/0801439256/

"Charles Dickens" [Penguin 2002] by Jane Smiley ISBN 0-670-03077-5

"Dickens and The Dream of Cinema" [11/2003] by Grahame Smith
http://www.amazon.com/Dickens-Dream-Cinema-Grahame-Smith/dp/0719055628/

"Dickens and Empire: Discourses of Class, Race and Colonialism In The Works of Charles Dickens"
[Ashgate Publng 2004] by Grace Moore ISBN 978-0-7546-3412-6

"Dickens The Journalist" [3/2004] by John Drew
http://www.amazon.com/Dickens-Journalist-John-Drew/dp/033398773X/

"Walking Dickensian London" [Globetrotter/New Holland 2004] by Richard Jones ISBN 978-1-84330-483-8

"An Edwardian's View Of Dickens And His Illustrators: Harry Furniss's A Sketch Of Boz" [9/2005] by Gareth Cordery
http://www.amazon.com/Edwardians-View-Dickens-His-Illustrators/dp/0944318207/

"Charles Dickens: The Man Who Invented Christmas (Who Was ..? Series)" [2005] by Andrew Billen Short Books Ltd, UK pb [10/2005] out of print/many used Short Books Ltd, UK pb [10/2005] out of print/used

"Dickens, Family, Authorship: Psychoanalytic Perspectives On Kinship and Creativity" [Ashgate Publng 2008]
by Lynn Cain ISBN 978-0-7546-6180-1

"The Dickens Industry: Critical Perspectives, 1836-2005" [9/2008] by Laurence W. Mazzeno
http://www.amazon.com/Dickens-Industry-Perspectives-1836-2005-Perspective/dp/1571133178/

"Going Astray: Dickens and London" [10/2008] by Jeremy Tambling
http://www.amazon.com/Going-Astray-Dickens-Jeremy-Tambling/dp/1405899875/

"Charles Dickens: A Life Defined By Writing" [Yale Univ Press 2009] by Michael Slater ISBN 978-0-300-11207-8

"God and Charles Dickens" [Baker Books 2009] by Gary L. Colledge ISBN 978-1-4412-3778-1

"Charles Dickens and The House of Fallen Women" [Methuen 2009] by Jenny Hartley ISBN 978-0-413-77643-3

"Bozland: Dickens' Places and People" [11/2009] by Percy Hetherington Fitzgerald
http://www.amazon.com/Bozland-Dickens-Percy-Hetherington-Fitzgerald/dp/111712164X/

"Charles Dickens" [11/2009] by Michael Slater
http://www.amazon.com/Charles-Dickens-Michael-Slater/dp/0300112076/

"Charles Dickens (The Critical Heritage Series)" [11/2009] by Philip Collins
http://www.amazon.com/Charles-Dickens-Critical-Heritage/dp/0415568757/

"The Pleasures of Memory: Learning To Read With Charles Dickens" [2/2011] by Sarah Winter
http://www.amazon.com/Pleasures-Memory-Learning-Charles-Dickens/dp/0823233529/

"Becoming Dickens: The Invention of A Novelist" [2011] By Robert Douglas-Fairhurst

"Charles Dickens" [2011] by Claire Tomalin

"Charles Dickens: Scenes From An Extraordinary Life" [Frances Lincoln Children's Books 2011]
by Mick Manning & Brita Granstr๖m

"Charles Dickens and The Blacking Factory" [9/2011] by Michael Allen
http://www.amazon.com/Charles-Dickens-blacking-factory-Michael/dp/1463687907/

"Charles Dickens's Networks: Public Transport and The Novel" [Oxford Univ Press 2012]
by Jonathan H. Grossman ISBN 978-0-19-964419-3

"Dickens, Journalism, Music: Household Words and All The Year Round" [4/2012] by Robert Terrell Bledsoe
http://www.amazon.com/Dickens-Journalism-Music-Household-Continuum/dp/1441150870/

"Charles Dickens and 'Boz': The Birth of The Industrial-Age Author" [6/2012] by Robert L. Patten
http://www.amazon.com/Charles-Dickens-Boz-Industrial-Age-Author/dp/1107023513/

"The Great Charles Dickens Scandal" [11/2012] by Michael Slater
http://www.amazon.com/Great-Charles-Dickens-Scandal-ebook/dp/B00942HRII/
http://www.amazon.com/Great-Charles-Dickens-Scandal/dp/030011219X/

"Charles Dickens In Love" [12/2012] by Robert Garnett
http://www.amazon.com/Charles-Dickens-Love-Robert-Garnett/dp/1605983950/

"Dickens's Style" [8/2013] by Dr Daniel Tyler
http://www.amazon.com/Dickenss-Cambridge-Studies-Nineteenth-Century-Literature/dp/1107028434/

"Charles Dickens In Context" [10/2013] by Sally Ledger & Holly Furneaux
http://www.amazon.com/Charles-Dickens-Context-Sally-Ledger/dp/1107698219/

"The Victorian City: Everyday Life In Dickens' London" [2014] by Judith Flanders Kindle Edition from Thomas Dunne/Macmillan [7/2014] for $9.99 St. Martin's Griffin 8¼x5½ pb [7/2015] for $13.55 Thomas Dunne Books 9½x6½ hardcover [7/2014] for $19.01

Fiction  About  Charles  Dickens

"The Last Dickens: A Novel" national bestseller [#3 = 2009] by Matthew Pearl When world-famous author Charles Dickens suddenly dies in 1870, struggling Boston publisher James Osgood sends his trusted clerk to await the arrival of Dickens's final manuscript. But the clerk does not return, his body turns up by the docks, his sister Rebecca asks for help, and James is off after the killer and the manuscript. Kindle Edition from Random House [3/2009] for $9.99 Random House Trade 8x5¼ pb [10/2009] for $12.50 Random House 9½x7 hardcover [3/2009] out of print/100+ used

"The Final Recollections of Charles Dickens: A Novel" [2014] by Thomas Hauser Novel weaves together Dickens's well-known history with an imagined tale of mystery, murder, and romance; in 1870 (the year that Dickens died), the ailing author sits down to write his final story, a tale he lived himself in the early years of his career and kept secret until this point. Kindle Edition from Counterpoint [10/2014] for $12.91 Counterpoint 8¼x5¼ hardcover [11/2014] for $17.37

"A Dickens of A Murder [Canterville Book Shop Mysteries #1 = 10/2015] by Joyce & Jim Lavene
https://www.amazon.com/Dickens-Murder-Canterville-Book-Mysteries/dp/1518794564/

Stageplays,  Other  Media
Charles Dickens credits at Internet Broadway Database: 42 shows since 1860

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"Emlyn Williams as Charles Dickens" one-man stage performance show credits at IBDb, three runs 1952 to 1981 performance at John Golden Theatre, New York City [Feb-March 1952] 'based on the writings of Charles Dickens' • credits at IBDb performance at Bijou Theatre, New York City [April-May 1953] 'based on "Bleak House" and other novels and stories of Charles Dickens' • credits at IBDb performance at Century Theatre, New York City [Jan-Feb 1981] 'based on scenes from the novels and stories by Charles Dickens' • credits at IBDb Decca Argo soundtrack LP [1/2016] 2 disks - out of prodn/used Decca Argo soundtrack LP [5/2017] 2 disks - out of prodn/used

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Jim Zimmerman's one-man show about Dickens [1997]
Asst. Prof. Zimmerman wrote and performs a one-man show based on Dickens's musings on the last full day of his life, which ended with his fatal stroke;
90% of the text is/are Dickens's own words which offer reflections about the purpose, meaning, and supposed futility of his life.

Movies  &  Television  About  Charles  Dickens

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"Dickens of London" 13-episode mini-series
[Yorkshire Television UK Sept 1976, P.B.S. USA Aug 1977]

Episode 11 includes a fictional sequence of a meeting in New York between Dickens and Edgar Allan Poe (ably acted by Seymour Matthews). Episode Titles: 1. Mask; 2. The Deed; 3. Blacking; 4. Love; 5. Success; 6. Fame; 7. Money; 8.Possession; 9. Dreams; 10. Magic; 11. Nightmare; 12. Angel; 13. Memories Directed by Marc Miller & Michael Ferguson; starring Roy Dotrice {as Dickens}, John F. Landry, Diana Coupland, Adrienne Burgess, Gene Foad, Lois Baxter, Simon Bell, Graham Faulkner, Holly Palance, Karen Dotrice, Patsy Kensit, Seymour Matthews, Ben Kingsley & Richard Leech Entertainment One Bicentenary Edition color DVD [1/2012] 4 disks for $22.49 Koch Vision color DVD [8/2007] 5 disks - out of prodn/used Goldhill Home Media color VHS [6/2002] 6 tapes for $32.49 full credits at IMDb • series entry at B.F.I. Database • series entry at Wikipedia

"Dickens" 3-part docudrama biopic [UK May 2002, PBS USA Dec 2003] /tt0319986/
episode titles: "Secrets", "Blazing Away", and "Terror To The End"

"Charles Dickens and The Magic Lantern" [B.F.I. 2011] featuring Mervyn Heard, Dr. John Plunkett, Phil Wickham
watch 12/2011 short film [8:23] online at YouTube

"The Invisible Woman" [B.B.C. Films/Sony Pictures Classics Feb 2014?]
Announced 2/2013: Domestic distribution is set for this romantic drama about the secret love affair between Dickens and a young actress.
Directed by & starring Ralph Fiennes; screenplay by Abi Morgan, based on the book by Claire Tomalin; also starring Felicity Jones,
Kristin Scott Thomas, Tom Hollander • latest info at IMDb
The Invisible Woman Trailer 2013 Ralph Fiennes, Felicity Jones Movie - Official [HD] dickens
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDMHb3GetIc

"The Man Who Invented Christmas"
[Bleecker Street Media Nov 2017]

British author Charles Dickens battles against interference in the creation of 'A Christmas Carol', which was published as a novella in 1843, and only gradually became a worldwide sensation • Directed by Bharat Nalluri; adapted by Susan Coyne from the book by Les Standiford; starring Dan Stevens, Christopher Plummer, Jonathan Pryce, Simon Callow, Miriam Margolyes, Ian McNeice, Bill Paterson, Cosimo Fusco, Donald Sumpter, Annette Badland, Morfydd Clark, Justin Edwards, Eddie Jackson, Ger Ryan, Valeria Bandino, Degnan Geraghty, David McSavage, Sean Duggan, Patrick Joseph Byrnes, Patrick Ball, Mark Schrier, Ely Solan, Kevin McCormack, Cameron Simpson, Desmond Bird, Ava May Taylor, Jasper Hughes Cotter, Donna Marie Sludds, Derek Hannay DVD/Blu-ray not yet available • full credits at IMDb • official movie site • movie entry at Wikipedia watch 9/2017 official trailer [2:21] at YouTube

"The Man Who Invented Christmas: How Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol Rescued His Career and Revived Our Holiday Spirits" [2008] by Les Standiford the 2017 movie tie-in editions include the full text of "A Christmas Carol" movie tie-in Kindle Edition from Broadway Books/Random House [9/2017] for $11.99 Broadway Books 8x5¼ movie tie-in pb [9/2017] for $12.97 Broadway Books pb [10/2011] out of print/used Crown Books deckle-edge hardcover [11/2008] out of print/used Crown Books hardcover [11/2008] out of print/40+ used

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