As we celebrate 200 years since Dickens’s birth William Oddie recalls the writer’s uncanny vision of a woman in blue
Topic: Charles Dickens
My summer reading list: Virgil and Dickens. All the best writers are long dead
Posted on Monday, 8 August 2011
Virgil is wiser than Homer; Dickens is at his best in The Pickwick Papers
My brief guide to travel books: the boring, the narrow-minded and the brilliant
Posted on Thursday, 30 June 2011
Nineteenth-century writers were an intriguing mix of curiosity and prejudice; modern writers are equally prejudiced, but not in a good way
Why some women didn’t like Margaret Thatcher
Last Saturday’s ‘Young Margaret’ offered some telling insights into the former prime minister