Why Dickens?

A talk by Dr Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, Fellow and Tutor at Magdalen College, Oxford. He is the author of “Victorian Afterlives: The Shaping of Influence in Nineteenth-Century Literature”, and editor of a selected edition of Henry Mayhew’s “London Labour and the London Poor”.

His latest book, “Becoming Dickens – The Invention of a Novelist” focuses on the 1830s and portrays a restless and uncertain Dickens who could not decide on the career path he should take and would never feel secure in his considerable achievements.

This talk takes place in the Churchill Room at Goodenough College at 6.30pm.