Tag: Dickens
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Ships,Storms and Sea-Sickness
I am the world’s worst traveller. I starve myself before any journey and set off for my destination armed with prescription travel tablets and wrist bands, and I am still ill. Anything involving water is worst of all – oceans, seas, rivers, canals, boating pools in the park, you name it, I’ve been sick on…
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Dickens and Daughter
I had my week all planned, but my mother has been ill, and I have been with her. Thankfully, she is much better, so I’m back home, it’s catch-up time on the computer, and I’m posting a piece I was going to do on Tuesday as part of a Dickens tribute. I’m hoping to re-read…
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Christmas Comfort with Mr Pickwick
Christmas Eve at Mr Wardle’s, byHablot Knight Browne,known as Phiz. How can I have got this far through December without mentioning Charles Dickens? Dickens loved Christmas, and as the 200th anniversary of his birth approaches our image of the traditional, family festival is still shaped by his writings. So here’s a passage from The Pickwick…
The Book Trunk 