It is in David Copperfield and Great Expectations that Dickens creates some of the characters and scenes that have transcended the novels themselves and attained mythic status: Magwitch’s first appearance in the graveyard, Miss Havisham’s […]

The Victorians couldn’t get enough of Wilkie Collins’s novel, The Woman in White. It sold out within weeks and inspired a sales mania: Woman in White bonnets and cloaks became […]

Villette, Charlotte Bronte's last novel, is an uncompromising depiction of the effects of repressed passion on the psyche of its  icy yet gusty awkward narrator-governess, Lucy Snowe. We will delve […]