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Fascinating fact (Hollywood.com)JOSEPH FIENNES is the latest star to team up with coffee company Carte Noire for a new literacy scheme. The British actor has been filmed reading extracts from novels by Charles Dickens, Nick Hornby and Marian Keyes to help introduce more people to famous works. Former THE WIRE star DOMINIC WEST was previously involved in the campaign.
The London Blogger Interviews #35: Footsteps of Boz (Londonist)Among Charles Dickens' cauldron of literary outpourings, his first major work remains relatively obscure. Sketches by Boz sees the pseudonymous young author reporting scenes from everyday London life with the nascent wit, wizardry and pathos of his later novels. Postgrad Mike Kielty has set up a blog to revisit Dickens' 'sketches', looking with a modern eye at some of the locations mentioned in ...
Seven Days In Seven Lives: 'A Week In December' (NPR)Sebastian Faulks' satirical novel is a weeklong tour of modern London, woven together in Dickensian style. Dickens' 19th century characters dealt with class conflict, wealth, poverty and true love. Faulks' contemporary characters deal with terrorism, greed, the Internet and — because some things never change — true love.
Philip Pittack & Martin White, cloth merchants (My Tower Hamlets)When Charles Dickens visited this corner of London in 1851, he wrote an account of visiting a silk warehouse , so I was intrigued when Miss Willey of Old Town , told me about the last remaining cloth warehouse in Spitalfields, Crescent Trading in Quaker St run by Philip Pittack & Martin White, who describe themselves as clearance cloth merchants.
