“Never let the facts stand in the way of a good story”, so the old saying goes. And that is exactly the approach taken by Claire Tomalin who wrote the book, and by Ralph Fiennes who made and acted in the film The Invisible Woman. This purports to tell the story of the relationship betweenContinue reading “The Invisible Woman”
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Honesty in Literary Scholarship
I have here commented on what I believe to be a couple of the failings in this particular area of literary scholarship, namely, of believability and honesty. If one believes the statement that Dickens and Ellen Ternan had “a son (who died in infancy)”, then the testimony of Thomas Wright of Olney is redundant, asContinue reading “Honesty in Literary Scholarship”
Slingsby's Miscellany 