The revolutionary impact of emotion informs Ferdinand Mount’s ambitious cultural history, Soft The post What’s wrong with being sentimental? appeared first on The Spectator World.| The Spectator World
By Dan Sullivan This article was originally published in Applause magazine in 2009. It has been edited for length. He wrote it for the money. Not just for the money, of course: Charles Dickens was no Grub Street hack. Still, his family was growing, he was behind on his bills and his latest novel, […]| Denver Center for the Performing Arts
Hello everyone! Top 5 Tuesday is a weekly meme created by Bionic Bookworm, and it’s now hosted by Meeghan Reads. If you’re interested in participating, check out their wonderful blog to get the details and the prompts for each week! I’m playing a bit of catch-up with the Top 5 Tuesday topics. On September 9th the Top […] The post Top 5 Classics I Meant to Read (but Never Got Around To) first appeared on Books Are 42.| Books Are 42
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens is a book I love but I typically don’t love adaptations of it. The shorter ones, such as the musical Oliver! or the 2005 movie, cut the mysterious Monks, one of my favorite villains in … Continue reading →| The Adaptation Station.com
Rochester Day Trip From London – Historical Guide The Culture Map There are some wonderful places that are easy to reach from London, and Rochester is certainly one of them. Located in nearby Kent, this medieval town is filled with interesting history, literary connections, fabulous architecture and oodles of charm. I wasn’t sure what to expect because it rarely pops up on the list of places […] The post Rochester Day Trip From London – Historical Guide appeared first on The Culture Map.| The Culture Map
Continuing our series on parliamentary buildings, Dr Kathryn Rix looks at the accommodation provided for the newspaper journalists who reported on the proceedings of the nineteenth-century House of…| The Victorian Commons
Neither of these appeared on my initial list, but I thought a middle-grade novel and a classic would be good for variety. Though I have an MA in Victorian Literature, I don’t often read from the pe…| Bookish Beck
Six Degrees of Separation is a meme hosted by Kate over at Books Are My Favourite and Best. It works like this: each month a book is chosen as a starting point and linked to six others to form a chain. A book doesn’t need to be connected to all the titles on the list, […] The post Six Degrees of Separation – Ghost Cities to The Hound of the Baskervilles appeared first on A life in books.| A life in books
looking or feeling ill or nauseated—1843, in a letter by Charles Dickens—when applied to a person, the plural noun ‘gills’ designates the flesh under the jaws and ears; also the cheeks| word histories
Thirteen years ago, I put on a Victorian Suit and a false beard and I read Dickens' prompt copy of A Christmas Carol at New York Public Library. It was a wonderful, sold out performance, introduced by Molly Oldfield, who told us all about Dickens's reading routine.| Neil Gaiman's Journal
Waste not, want not, I suppose. Scott Cramer, a YouTuber whom I like[1]Partially because we’re both North Dakotans., once did a video about ideas he had for YouTube videos which he ultimately never made for various reasons. This allowed him to make use of some of the best lines he would have used in those videos and give fans an interesting look at the behind-the-scenes process. I thought it’d be fun to do a blog post like that, so here are some concepts for blog posts that I’ve relucta...| The Adaptation Station.com
Un classique qui sommeillait depuis plusieurs années dans ma PAL. J’ai voulu une lecture un peu plus évoluée que la fantasy et la romance que je dévore à pleines dents, alors je me suis lancée. L’auteur raconte l’histoire de Pip, jeune orphelin élevé par sa terrible sœur dans un modeste village. Sa vie change cependant … Lire la suite De Grandes Espérances, par Charles Dickens→| Les Lectures de Guenièvre
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Sentimental artworks, and the people who indulge in them, are disappointingly incurious about the emotions involved. If the emotions are rational, and if they inform our thinking and deliberation, they warrant critical scrutiny every bit as much as thought does. The post Newsletter: April 2025 appeared first on David Egan Philosophy.| David Egan Philosophy
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A fiction subgenre of a realistic nature that focuses on the home scene, domestic realism evolved from the reaction against Romanticism that occurred in the mid-19th century. Following the preoccup…| Literary Theory and Criticism
Swan River Press has just launched a major three-volume collected works of Fitz-James O’Brien. It’s the most complete presentation of O’Brien’s fantastic literature to date,…| John Kenny
Thursday, February 20, 2025 Hello, all. As we approach the end of the week, here’s a song that is just, well… bizarre. Although it goes with the rest of the post. I was going to make…| Teagan's Books
ACT has a new version of ‘A Christmas Carol’. It’s a big lump of coal with a few diamond-shines sprinkled in.| The Thinking Man's Idiot (Charles Lewis III)
Christmas wouldn't be Christmas without Charle's Dickens. What are some valuable lessons we can learn in life and writing using this tale?| Kristen Lamb
Now I remember those old women’s words,| On An Underwood No. 5
Bellamy's, the refreshment rooms in the pre-1834 Palace of Westminster, occupied a distinctive place in the late Georgian and early Victorian political world, a place where different worlds collided. … Continue reading Bellamy’s→| Reformation to Referendum: Writing a New History of Parliament
