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Black Beauty and Chronic Illness
Pippa Stacey finds a connection with Anna Sewell’s Children’s Classic beyond the book itself.
Sally Minogue celebrates The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
2020 marks the 150th anniversary of Robert Tressell’s birth; Sally Minogue celebrates his iconic novel, ‘The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists’.
Stephen Carver looks at Moll Flanders
‘Thus I gave up myself to a readiness of being ruined without the least concern, and am a fair Memento to all young Women, whose Vanity prevails over their Virtue.’ Stephen Carver looks at Daniel Defoe’s novel of the progress of a poor orphan girl in 17th century England.
Mia Forbes looks at King Lear
Morality, justice and Christianity in King Lear By Mia Forbes
David Stuart Davies takes a look at Mark Twain
David Stuart Davies looks at the man that William Faulkner described as ‘The father of America Literature’
Stephen Carver looks at Mary Barton
Stephen Carver looks at Elizabeth Gaskell’s first novel, on the plight of factory workers in the mills of Manchester in the 1840s
David Stuart Davies looks at The Railway Children
David Stuart Davies looks at this classic children’s story that has become popular with all ages.
The Other Brontë Sister
Steve Carver looks at ‘The Tenant of Wildfell Hall’, Anne Brontë’s second, and final, novel
David Stuart Davies looks at Mapp & Lucia
David Stuart Davies looks at E.F. Benson’s much-loved comic creations