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...This great waterway plays a key role in Charles Dickens’s Our Mutual Friend, so how fitting that Ben Power’s new adaptation, retitled London Tide, should open yards from the river....
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...Also, we go short Charles Dickens in the theatre and short UK weather....
...Great Expectations — a conscious callback to Charles Dickens’ novel of the same name — is the story of David, a young Black man who dreams of being a writer and is instead swept up in Obama’s campaign for...
...In 1850, a strange essay called “A Christmas Pudding” appeared in Charles Dickens’s weekly journal, Household Words....
...If you like a good tear-jerker — and Victorian readers certainly did — nothing surpasses the heart-rending and carefully heralded death of young Paul in Charles Dickens’ seventh novel, Dombey and Son....
...Charles Dickens – who was a discerning drinker – was enchanted by the ice culture he encountered in the States, as he recalls in this sonorous account of a bar visit from his travelogue American Notes (1842...
...And then there’s the Gad’s Hill Place bonfire in September 1860, where Charles Dickens burnt 20 years’ worth of papers, emptying basket upon basket of correspondence into the flames....
...Literary figures including Charles Dickens, AA Milne and Kingsley Amis have been members, as well as numerous artists, politicians and businessmen....
...Dickens, whom Buck said she reread every year....
...But the archival record of their cases is unusually rich — thanks, in part, to an energetic young journalist by the name of Charles Dickens, who visited Newgate prison where the condemned men were being...
...Inspired by the novels of Charles Dickens and late 19th-century history, the month-long event plunges attendees into a bustling Victorian London, accompanied by characters in costume straight from A Christmas...
...Can there really have been a writer friend of Charles Dickens who found fame before him and was eventually supplanted by him, with Dickens emerging “seven years younger, seven times the richer, and in possession...
...After all, the third major adaptation of Charles Dickens’s bildungsroman in 12 years is less a source of anticipation than a sign of a commissioning department short on ideas....
...Charles Dickens could stride for miles at night and never worry about a thing; George Sand had to dress as a man to do the same....
...Dickens published in 1862....
...Emma Humphreys, Partner at the law firm Charles Russell Speechlys, said: “There are tenants struggling to pay their rent, and many landlords are being squeezed just as tightly, with rising mortgage payments...
...It is thanks, in part, to school reading lists that continue to spotlight the classics that Dickens is embedded in our collective psyche....
...I went to see a musical version of a Charles Dickens book called Our Mutual Friend. This was called London Tide, and oh, dear, it wasn’t good. I’m very short....
...Website; Directions The Grapes (Limehouse)This Thameside pub has existed in different forms for almost five centuries, including in a thinly veiled reference in Charles Dickens’ Our Mutual Friend....
...The only figure who came close was Charles Dickens....
...Set between 1990 and 2015, and written as an episodic picaresque (after Charles Dickens), we follow the “life and times” of Yahya Bas, son of an Iraqi father and an English mother....
...By the 20th century, the “German toy” (as Charles Dickens called the tree) was brimming with decorations....
...Between Daniel O’Connell and Charles Stuart Parnell in the pantheon of 19th-century Irish patriots stands John Mitchel: lawyer, polemicist, newspaper editor and sworn enemy of the British crown....
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