Category: Dombey and Son

  • ‘TIME’ magazine update

    Radhika Jones, author of that excellent TIME article about the bicentennial, has started blogging about what…

  • You guys! Good news!

    We're getting a new Dickens adaptation from BBC One after all! Now, it's not David Copperfield…

  • Happy birthday, Fanny Dickens!

    Today is the bicentennial of Charles Dickens's older sister, Frances "Fanny" Dickens Burnett, born October 28,…

  • Dickens and dads

    Dickens's troubled relationship with his father is featured in a new BBC4 documentary about fathers in…

  • ‘Edwin Drood’: The review

    I thought of titling this review "Don't Make Claude Angry. You Wouldn't Like Him When He's…

  • News from the BBC

    Andrew Davies reports that the BBC has asked him to scrap Dombey and Son and work…

  • The upholstery of life

    And there, with an aching void in his young heart, and all outside so cold, and…

  • Party!

    My cousin, a fellow Dickensian, was here last night for a little Dickens party. We had…

  • The pleasures of rereading Dickens

    David Gates has a lovely essay in Newsweek about why he enjoys rereading books — and…