Dickens and his demons
How the novelist hid his cruel side – infidelity, bullying callousness, malice – in plain sight in his fiction.
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How the novelist hid his cruel side – infidelity, bullying callousness, malice – in plain sight in his fiction.
By Lyndall GordonKenneth Grahame charmed readers with The Wind in the Willows – but his personal life left tragedy in its…
By Lyndall GordonJenny Uglow's Mr Lear: A Life of Art and Nonsense illuminates the poet and painter's life through his work.
By Lyndall GordonA look at the time Charlotte Brontë spent in Brussels revelas a study in creative obsession.
By Lyndall GordonThe poet had a tangled relationship with the erotic, once remarking that however intimate a love poem may be, it…
By Lyndall GordonNew studies by Edward Wakeling and Robert Douglas-Fairhurst uncover the story of one of literature's most debated men.
By Lyndall Gordon