Food banks,lack of children’s services and attack on health service execute novelist’s work relavant, says biographer ahead of BBC drama Dickensian
Food banks, and the lack of state support for children’s services and the attack on the health service has made the work of Charles Dickens more relevant than ever before,according to the author’s acclaimed biographer Claire Tomalin.
Tomalin, who wrote Charles Dickens: A Life in 2011, and told the Radio Times that Dickens’s focus on the parlous living conditions of the urban destitute was just as important more than 200 years after his birth. “Dickens is very relevant at the moment in England. Because we are producing Dickensian conditions again,” she told the Radio Times. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com