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...Francis Jeffrey, a hardheaded magazine editor, told Dickens that Paul Dombey’s death led him to feel “my heart purified by those tears”. Dickens himself was surprisingly unsentimental....
...The Reverend T Lawrence Shannon is the main character in which play by Tennessee Williams? The Shredder is the chief adversary of which crime-fighting New York brothers?...
...of a reputation that had often appeared, to William, to stretch seven continents”?...
...She winces, worried she’s in danger of coming over sentimental, like a modern William Blake, the 18th-century poet and painter who saw children as paragons of innocence. But it’s true....
...The House of Doors by Tan Twan Eng (Canongate/Bloomsbury) Inspired by the writer William Somerset Maugham’s trips to British Malaya in the 1920s, during which he collected ideas for his short stories, The...
...Letter in response to this article: Osborne pigeons are coming home to roost / From William Salomon, London W11, UK...
...It is telling, moreover, that rather than Mitchel expressing his guilt directly, Keneally has him write to Jenny that “I’ve given my father more grief than all the sisters and young William combined.”...
...She hopes the new policy stance will embolden her local council, Solihull, to reject a 450-house development in the greenbelt on the edge of the village of Dickens Heath....
...Shakespeare’s Book: The Intertwined Lives Behind the First Folio by Chris Laoutaris (William Collins/Pegasus Books) To mark the 400th anniversary of the First Folio, the Shakespeare scholar examines the...
...take on the era of #MeToo portrays a high-flying art historian whose glittering life comes crashing down, which is played out in front of a bustling, sprawling social canvas reminiscent of Thackeray or Dickens...
...Acts announced so far include Andrea Bocelli and Robbie Williams — with plenty more to come. 2023’s line-up included Billy Joel, Bruce Springsteen and Guns N’ Roses....
...founder of the city’s Hallé symphony orchestra, gave music lessons to Gaskell’s daughters in the drawing room; her shy friend, Charlotte Brontë, hid behind the curtains to avoid another guest; and Charles Dickens...
...Simultaneously, London is also a place with backyard shanty housing and squalor that Charles Dickens would recognise....
...There are drinks pop-ups; for a bite to eat, get there early and make for the dockside 18th-century Dickens Inn, with its west-facing terraces covered in geraniums....
...For a loyal reader, it was like waiting for Dickens instalments in the old days. Here’s one of the final ones, but you sort of had to be there week in week out to get it....
...William Bain, head of trade policy at the British Chambers of Commerce, a business association, said the overall trade picture was “concerning”....
...Demon Copperheadby Barbara Kingsolver, Faber £20/Harper $32.50 Barbara Kingsolver’s updating of David Copperfield — Dickens’ most autobiographical novel — relocates the action to Appalachia to tell the...
...James Shapiro’s 1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare showed how fertile it can be to focus in on a single 12-month period in a great writer’s biography....
...It was named after Dr William Butler, a court physician to King James I whose specialities included shooting pistols to shock patients out of epilepsy....
...A quick (pardon the pun) consultation of the Oxford English Dictionary online confirms that William Shakespeare in The Tempest (1623) wrote “With such discourse, as I not doubt, shall make it/Goe quicke...
...Current regulars include Kazuo Ishiguro, William Boyd, Lady Antonia Fraser and Andrew Marr. “Our members publish around 800 books a year,” Marshall reveals....
...Past clients in the bank’s history have included the authors Charles Dickens and Jane Austen and the former prime minister William Pitt the Elder. It is now owned by NatWest Group....
...Defining a focus is a crucial first step for would-be collectors, whether it’s Charles Dickens or mid-century cookbooks....
...“Trio” by William Boyd will be published by Viking on October 8 Follow @FTMag on Twitter to find out about our latest stories first....
...asks Uriah Heep in Charles Dickens’ David Copperfield, alluding to his premature announcement of his plan to marry Agnes. We probably all have. Pears are a paradoxical fruit....
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