#Dickens

MASSOLIT

themassolit

We chatted to Prof. John Mullan earlier about Dickens, and he CONFIRMED all of your wonderful Dickens facts. He also added one of this own...@Team_English1 First, a small addition to

Lucca

PETARDHOISTER

2021 Reading Thread1. Wallace Shawn, The Designated Mourner 2. Henry James, Daisy Miller 3. Charles Dickens, Great Expectations this one was a real delight -- so many perfect, vivid, haunting

dan hett

danhett

alright, festive #covideoparty starts now, if you hate semi drunk commentary on films please unfollow me immediately you giant square. thread -> Charles Dickens famously wrote this specifically for Kermit,

The Dickens Society

Dickens_Society

Whenever you are struggling with writing or drafting, and feel like an utter failure, remember that #Dickens painstakingly considered MULTIPLE titles before choosing the comparatively simplistic #BleakHouse (1853). Some ideas

Charles C. Mann

CharlesCMann

I see this stuff from time to time, and I always wonder why these guys think that indigenous people had some sort of exclusive monopoly on horrible violence. It’s just

Charles Dickens Letters Project

DickensLetters

New on the website today: 21 previously unpublished letters written by Charles Dickens! https://dickensletters.com/ We put this batch together under the theme of letters connected to publishing. What does the

David McAllister

Dr_D_McAllister

Weirdly, Boris Johnson twice alluded to A Tale of Two Cities during PMQs this week. Both fairly obscure references, neither of which made much sense if you know the novel,

Mike Puddephatt

MikeDellwick

Latest acquisition two Bank notes from the Gloucester Old Bank.Both cashed on the 12th June 1815 (6 days before the Battle of Waterloo) at the Kings Head Inn.The Kings Head

The Dickens Society

Dickens_Society

Scenes of #tea drinking in Charles #Dickens's fiction often provide clues as to the moral integrity of characters. In particular, how individuals use tea-time can be extremely revealing Generally,

Claire Willett

clairewillett

do you ever think about how in "A Muppet Christmas Carol" Michael Caine as Scrooge is yelling about how much poor people suck and he's like "if they're going to

Terry Teachout

TerryTeachout1

It's My Loss Department: What work of art, or body of work, do you not appreciate but wish you did? In my case, it's the novels of Charles Dickens. I

Per Axbom

axbom

I am 45 pages into The Great Pretender by @scahalan and it's already one of the best books on mental illness I've read. I have goosebumps from the documented historic

HolBolDoArt🏳️‍🌈

HolBolDoTweet

This is a new commemorative HG Wells £2 coin for 2021. Now, as someone who particularly likes one of his very famous stories, can I just note that the big

Jason Pontin

jason_pontin

Many, if not most, great writers were temperamentally conservative: Swift, Austen, Tolstoy, Kipling, Claudel, T.S. Eliot, (later) Auden, Larkin, Powell, Elizabeth Bowen, Waugh, Mishima, (later) Bellow, Sybille Bedford, Gene Wolfe.

Z Helman English Teacher & Consultant

z_helman

Inference isn't really a skill. There's no part of the brain that does your inferring for you. Either you have sufficient conceptual and real-world knowledge to 'see' a meaning or

C Cawley

RejectIdeology

The spitting intolerance for any mental diversity is the mark of Woke. It is virulent, censorious and self-righteous Dickens would himself would find it hard to believe. For all its

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