Bleak house: the dark truth behind Charles Dickens' Christmas obsession

When Charles Dickens’s death was announced in June 1870 the young daughter of a London costermonger asked anxiously ... suggests all sorts of Dickensian themes – city grime, cheap street food, the capacity of innocent children to rise lispingly ...

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/dec/20/bleak-...

Published: Thu 20th Dec 2018 08:00 PM