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Charles Dickens
There isn’t much in The English Soul that you could not get from clicking in and out of the relevant Wikipedia entries on Wesley or the Diggers
His work’s modernity, making such innovative use of the main literary traditions of the West, would have been unimaginable in the nineteenth century
It cathartically exorcises our fear of the spirits of the outer darkness
Is it a place, or a state of mind, or a bit of both?
Amid the spanking and mud and tedium, its impact is all but lost
The Year That Shaped the Victorian Age: Lives, Loves and Letters of 1845 by Michael Wheeler reviewed
Haunted doll houses are nowadays two-a-penny, but I can think of only one haunted Nativity set
Whatever spick and span reminds us of, it is as an idiom with a cheery meaning of its own
The Bath bun has been enjoyed in the English city of Bath for over 300 years
