Long reads Dickens and his demons How the novelist hid his cruel side – infidelity, bullying callousness, malice – in plain sight in his fiction. By Lyndall Gordon
Dark-hearted dreamer: the double life of Kenneth Grahame Kenneth Grahame charmed readers with The Wind in the Willows – but his personal life left tragedy in its… By Lyndall Gordon
Nonsense and sensibility: the brilliant and conflicted mind of Edward Lear Jenny Uglow's Mr Lear: A Life of Art and Nonsense illuminates the poet and painter's life through his work. By Lyndall Gordon
Reader, I stalked him: on Charlotte Brontë in her bicentenary year A look at the time Charlotte Brontë spent in Brussels revelas a study in creative obsession. By Lyndall Gordon
T S Eliot and the sexual wasteland The poet had a tangled relationship with the erotic, once remarking that however intimate a love poem may be, it… By Lyndall Gordon
Lewis Carroll: revelations about Alice and her wonderland New studies by Edward Wakeling and Robert Douglas-Fairhurst uncover the story of one of literature's most debated men. By Lyndall Gordon