Dickens, Dirt, and Education

text by Magdalena Pypeć One of the pressing social issues that deeply concerned Charles Dickens was the need for universal education and comprehensive sanitary reform, both of which he deemed essential to improving the lives of the poor. In Dickens’s view, these two causes were inextricably linked. This connection is vividly illustrated in A Christmas […]

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John Keats at Hampstead

text by Małgorzata Łuczyńska-Hołdys ‘Darkling I listen; and, for many a time, I have been half in love with easeful Death…’ “Ode to a Nightingale”, 51-2 From George Orwell and Daphne de Maurier to Gerald Mainley Hopkins, John Constable, Leigh Hunt, and, naturally, John Keats, Hampstead provided both inspiration and refuge to some of England’s […]

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