Great Expectations: Charles Dickens' bicentenary is set to make a fortune
Little has changed since 1868. The Dickens brand is as big and as powerful a cultural export as ever, beloved abroad and on the verge of making yet more skyscraper-shaped piles of cash for his bicentenary next year, which coincides with the Olympics and the Queen’s jubilee, and which is being globally marketed alongside these two mammoth events.