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Dickens’s unprecedented celebrity made him the most popular novelist of his century—but the author of Great Expectations, Bleak House, A Christmas Carol, and dozens of other works was more than just a writer.
Federal American Vernacular Portraits, 1790s to 1840s.
Bill Keller, former editor of the New York Times, has documented the dysfunction the US criminal justice system. Now he watches with horror as UK prisons head the same way
The New York of Charles Dickens’s first visit remains recognizable. It is still, as Dickens observed, “a great emporium of commerce” and a “place of general resort.”
We have quite a few model (building) enthusiasts on the forum so I thought I would share some images from my visit last Saturday to a nice model building exhibition. Here in the Netherlands there are