At the time of his death, Dickens had made a name for himself not merely as the author of more than 14 novels (The Mystery of Edwin Drood was half done when he was felled by a stroke), but as a magazine editor, playwright, In this, the bicentenary of Dickens' birth, the Rt Rev Peter […]
Bleak House is Dickens' grandest, most virtuosic achievement, but with all that grandeur and virtuosity it still makes me cry for Esther Summerson. The novel is divided into two strands: the story of rich, haughty, reserved Lady Dedlock, He was Charles Dickens, one of the world's greatest storytellers, and most complex characters. Two hundred years […]