Headquartered at University of California, Santa Cruz, The Dickens Project is a locus for collaborative research by major American and international universities on the work and life of Charles Dickens. This site offers an extensive archive of resources for the teaching and study of Great Expectations, Our Mutual Friend, and other Dickens novels, as well as a wealth of historical information, bibliographies, and links to numerous scholarly Dickens sites on the Web.

The Dickens Page
http://lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/Dickens.html

Here you can access the absolute latest information about the well-known British author. YouÕll find links to an amazing resource of data compiled through years of study, the "Life and Works of Charles Dickens," and a vast array of critical articles and resources.

Charles Dickens: Discovering Dickens
http://www.west.net/~cybrary/Dickens/

Click here to view an intriguing site that helps challenge students of Dickens to find Internet links in order to further their research. This interesting project is best explained at the site itself: "...students then transform the information into a project such as a timeline, diary, storyboard, or poster..." Visit here for an active learning resource.

If you want to visit a large number of homepages regarding Charles Dickens and his works, this is the page for you. Provided here are links to almost 50 Dickens related sites,oalong with a myriad of other Dickens links.

This is an excellent starting point to begin research on the well-loved Victorian author. Here youÕll find an amazingly comprehensive biography of the author, along with links to sites that provide thorough information regarding the social, political, and religious importance in his many works.

Charles Dickens (b. 1812) was born in Landport, Portsmouth, England. When his father was imprisoned for outstanding debts Dickens was pulled out of school at the age of 12 and forced to work in a bootblacking factory to support his family. Dickens returned to school when his father was released from jail, but stopped for good at the age of 15. He worked as a shorthand reporter in the law courts, and eventually became a parliamentary and newspaper reporter. He published his first story in 1833, quickly followed by several more which were collected in the volume Sketches by Boz (his pseudonym) in 1836. Also in that same year, Dickens was hired to write a comic serial narrative to accompany a series of humorous sporting illustrations by the popular artist Robert Seymor. These short installments became known as Pickwick Papers, and their success made Dickens one of the most popular authors in his time. Dickens' second serial novel, Oliver Twist, published from 1837 to 1839, showed an amazing increase in complexity and quality in his writing. Dickens continued to publish in serial form, writing some of the most popular novels in the English language including, Nicholas Nickleby (1838—1839), A Christmas Carol (1844), David Copperfield (1849—1850), Hard Times (1854), A Tale of Two Cities (1859), and Great Expectations (1860—1861). Charles Dickens died in 1870, and today is generally considered the greatest novelist of the Victorian Era.