Charles Dickens - Day

Daily video show encouraging the whole family to enjoy the pleasures of reading and learning together. Featuring books, quizzes, trivia, history and much more! In this episode we read-out a quote from Charles Dickens, the World-famous English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime, and by the twentieth century critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary genius. His novels and short stories enjoy lasting popularity.