Category Archives: Book Reviews etc

Inside Their Heads: Psychological Profiles of Famous People by Richard D Ryder

Ryelands Publishing (Wellington, Somerset, 2015) – Reviewed by Jan Cooper. Richard D Ryder’s 2015 book, Inside their Heads: Psychological profiles of Famous People includes Charles Dickens amongst the famous people he looks at. Ryder is a PhD from Cambridge and … Continue reading

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The Dog in the Dickensian Imagination by Beryl Gray

Ashgate Publishing (Farnham, Surrey 2014) – Reviewed by Malvina Yock. This book explores the dogs in Charles Dickens’ life, both real and fictional. It begins with a lively introduction from the author, asserting that the streets of London where Dickens … Continue reading

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Performing Authorship in the Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Lecture Tour by Amanda Adams

Ashgate Publishing (Farnham, Surrey, 2014) – Reviewed by Graham Harman. What is it? At 148 pages, plus a further 20 pages of Bibliography and Index, Amanda Adams’ latest offering is a slender volume; but you won’t breeze through this substantive … Continue reading

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Charles Dickens’ Our Mutual Friend: A Publishing History by Sean Grass

Ashgate Publishing (Farnham, Surrey, 2014) – Reviewed by Jennifer Gribble. As Sean Grass notes, in this second title in the new Ashgate series of publishing histories, Our Mutual Friend holds a special place among the works of Dickens. As the … Continue reading

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Charles Dickens’ Our Mutual Friend: A Publishing History by Sean Grass

Ashgate Publishing (Farnham, Surrey, 2014) – Reviewed by Gary Corkill. Our Mutual Friend was the last completed novel by Charles Dickens. On its publication it received a scathing review by the young Henry James – “the poorest of Mr Dickens’ … Continue reading

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2013 in review

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2013 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: A New York City subway train holds 1,200 people. This blog was viewed about 3,700 times in 2013. If it were a NYC subway … Continue reading

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“Charles V. Catherine Dickens; As They Were” by Jean Wilson

Published by MX Publishing – Reviewed by Louise Owens. This book focuses on the life of Charles Dickens and those immediately surrounding him from when Dickens was 19, in 1831, to his death in 1870 and it’s outcomes. Drawing on … Continue reading

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