June 2013
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May 2013
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Just turned in my final college paper… now I’ve got plenty of free time to update Tumblr search for jobs!
April 2013
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Can you spot a Charles Dickens sentence? →
guardian.co.uk
A new study claims that Dickens and ‘the worst writer in history’ [Edward Bulwer-Lytton] are indistinguishable. That’s just plain silly.
Charles Dickens… or the world's worst writer? Blind reading test found 48% couldn't tell difference between literature great and ridiculed novelist →
dailymail.co.uk
A new study has found that people really are none the wiser about whether they’re reading a Charles Dickens masterpiece or one of the works of Edward Bulwer-Lytton, billed as ‘the worst writer in history
March 2013
5 posts
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When she was half a dozen years younger, Louisa had been overheard to begin a conversation with her brother one day, by saying ‘Tom, I wonder’—upon which Mr. Gradgrind, who was the person overhearing, stepped forth into the light and said, ‘Louisa, never wonder!’
Herein lay the spring of the mechanical art and mystery of educating the reason without stooping to the cultivation of the sentiments and affections. Never wonder. By means of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division, settle everything somehow, and never wonder.
“Love… is very materially assisted by a warm and active imagination: which has a long memory, and will thrive, for a considerable time, on very slight and sparing food.”
—Nicholas Nickleby, by Charles Dickens
'Charles Dickens is just as old as William Shakespeare!' What top A-level students tell university tutors →
dailymail.co.uk
Well, this is comforting.
Top English students reach university believing Charles Dickens is ‘just as old’ as William Shakespeare, an academic has warned.
Even those with three As at A-level including English can’t put books in historical context, according to Professor Helen Fulton, head of English and related literature at the University of York.
They fear being stretched, stick to easy works studied in sixth form and choose short or computer-based texts over those with plot, character and clear narrative structure, she said.
February 2013
6 posts
Researching reviews of Jane Eyre from the 1840s for a paper. It kinda made my day when one reviewer referred to Lowood school as “Dothegirls Hall.”
That awkward moment when you accidentally admit to your boyfriend that you remember his birth date because it’s only 9 days after Dickens’ birthday because you adore him and are such a stellar girlfriend, obviously.
