HomeBlog The Wordsworth Blog Articles from a range of guest contributors Nov7 AuthorBookNews ‘He do the Police in different voices’ As Charles Dickens’ last complete novel, Our Mutual Friend, is adapted for BBC Radio 4, Sally Minogue looks at the… Read More Oct28 AuthorBook The Witch’s Curse: Elizabeth Gaskell and the Female Gothic Something for Halloween… The Witch’s Curse In the great pantheon of Victorian British literature, Elizabeth Gaskell is among its most… Read More Oct17 AuthorBook Kate Chopin: Two Stories Kate Chopin was not a conventional woman. She was a professional writer at a time when it was unusual and… Read More Sep22 AuthorBook Sherlock Holmes in 1924: A Centenary Sherlock Holmes fiction probably conjures up images of fog bound London streets, hansom cabs and cosy scenes in 221b Baker… Read More Sep10 AuthorNews David Stuart Davies (1946-2024) Regular readers of our blog will be sad to hear that our old friend David Stuart Davies passed away in… Read More Sep5 AuthorBook Tolstoy’s ‘Anna Karenina’ ‘The aim of an artist is not to solve a problem irrefutably, but to make people love life in all… Read More