Category: Dickens references
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Charlotte Brontë, Charles Dickens, and ‘the contact of their imaginations’
As you may know, today marked the bicentennial of Charlotte Brontë’s birth. In the new biography Charlotte Brontë:…
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A couple of lists
Joseph Luzzi, author of the new book In a Dark Wood, offers five recommended reads, one of which…
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Charles Dickens attacked by vampires!
. . . Well, only figuratively. (But it makes a good post title, doesn't it?) I'm…
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The poet’s view
Just when we were trying to make nice with the Trollopians. . . . Here's Adam Gopnik…
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Dickens in the ‘Washington Post’
"In 1847, an English cleaning woman was extremely excited to learn that the boy lodging in…
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Celebrating English writers
As today is both Shakespeare's birthday and St. George's Day, the Irish Times took the opportunity to celebrate…
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Nightwalking with Dickens
Matthew Beaumont's new book, Nightwalking: A Nocturnal History of London, includes a section on Dickens, who, as…
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Eating with Dickens
The title of Laura Freeman's recent article in the Telegraph, "How Charles Dickens stopped me from starving myself…
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A Dickens of a horse
According to the Telegraph, "Greater Manchester Police names its horses after Dickens characters." What a delightful custom!…
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Listmania!
At ShortList, Dickens made the lists "40 Authors on How to Be Happy" and "30 Authors…