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2 days ago · Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities, (London: J. M. Dent, 1906), 218–21. Text The men were terrible, in the bloody-minded anger with which they looked from windows, caught up what arms they had, and came pouring down into the streets; but, the women were a sight to chill the boldest.
1 day ago · Dickens described London as a magic lantern, inspiring the places and people in many of his novels. From the coaching inns on the outskirts of the city to the lower reaches of the Thames, all aspects of the capital—Dickens's London—are described over the course of his body of work.
1 day ago · Toward the end of the Victorian era, the image of the opium addict and the Chinese opium den in the East End of London or in the Orient itself becomes a prominent trope in fiction by Dickens, Wilde, and Kipling, and can be seen to lead to the proliferation of Oriental villains in popular fiction of the early 20th century by such writers as M. P ...
3 days ago · London Tide ran at the National Theatre until 22 June 2024. It was an eerie and fascinating production, with some stand out performances by Jake Wood as a creepy Gaffer Hexam and Ellie-May Sheridan as a spirited and defiant Jenny Wren, but I left the theatre with very mixed thoughts. The play managed to capture the ...
4 days ago · These tend to have a more narrow focus featuring exhibits on a single person, like Charles Dickens, or single element of city, like public transport or the postal service. 9. Charles Dickens Museum. In London, Charles Dickens lived in a house on Doughty Street from 1837 to 1839 with his wife and eldest son.
3 days ago · Church Row—Fashionable Frequenters of "the Row" in the Last Century—Dr. Sherlock—Dr. John Arbuthnot—Dr. Anthony Askew—Dr. George Sewell—The Rev. Rochmont Barbauld—Mr. J. Park—Miss Lucy Aikin—Reformatory Schools—John Rogers Herbert—Henry Fuscli—Hannah Lightfoot—Charles Dickens—Charles Knight—An Artistic Gift rejected by Hampstead—The Parish Church—Repairs and Alterations in the Building—Eminent Incumbents—The Graves of Joanna Baillie, Sir James Mackintosh ...
3 days ago · This article addresses the obscuring of Dickens’s interest in contemporary science. It argues that Dickens was acquainted with those scientific developments – evolutionary biology and energy physics – that would converge, in the nineteenth century, to form ecological science.
