There has been plenty of commentary about concerning Charles Dickens, as it is the 200th year of his birth. Here is an entry, written back in 2006 at The Freeman, about him, which looks pretty interesting, and some of the LONDON – Having fallen victim to a pickpocket on my journey through London this morning, […]
England is being blighted by Dickensian levels of illiteracy despite billions of pounds spent on state education, the Government admitted today. The Schools Minister said there were "still shadows of Charles Dickens's world in our own". If Charles Dickens had lived, he would have been 200 today! I always think of Charles Dickens as a […]
Everybody loves Dickens. A few of the hardcore fans even read his books, but most people are content to enjoy the lavish BBC adaptations, denuded of any of that nasty, dense prose that makes them take more than a week to In a speech on reading, Nick Gibb said that despite two centuries of technological […]