Dickens worried for the safety of his sons when diphtheria broke out in France and - in a newly discovered letter - wrote about how the truth was difficult to find.
Holiday movies have been an essential part of the American winter celebrations. They offer a glimpse into how the world is could be, often in sharp contrast to reality.
‘God, I’m just so bored.’
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Over two centuries. the notion of boredom has shifted from an upper-class malady, through existential peril, to a functional emotion.
Dotheboys Hall, from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens. Illustration by ‘Phiz’ (Hablot K. Browne).
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Dickens's novels highlighted the poverty of education for the working classes. The all-important Education Act was finally passed in the year of his death.
A legend, even in his own lifetime: stamps to commemorate the 200th anniversary of Charles Dickens’s birth.
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PODCAST: An audio version of an in depth article on what newly discovered documents reveal about the burial of Charles Dickens, 150 years after his death.
Dickens in his study at Gad’s Hill Place in Higham, Kent.
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Modern viewers: Scrooge doesn't discuss what he's learned or ask for redemption. He swiftly negates the life he would have led, had it not been for the ghostly interventions.
A modern Christmas Carol.
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Affiliate Professor, Theological Studies, Loyola College for Diversity & Sustainability; Honorary Research Associate, University of Nottingham UK, Concordia University