The Turning Point: 1851--A Year That Changed Charles Dickens and the World
The Turning Point: 1851--A Year That Changed Charles Dickens and the World
Author: Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Published: 03/01/2022
Pages: 368
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.51lbs
Size: 9.25h x 6.25w x 1.03d
ISBN: 9780525655947
About the Author
ROBERT DOUGLAS-FAIRHURST is a Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford, and a Fellow of Magdalen College. His books include Becoming Dickens: The Invention of a Novelist, which won the Duff Cooper Prize, and The Story of Alice: Lewis Carroll and the Secret History of Wonderland, which was short-listed for the Costa Biography Award and was a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week. He writes regularly for publications including The Times (London), The Guardian, TLS, and The Spectator. Radio and television appearances include Start the Week and The Culture Show, and he has also acted as the historical consultant on TV adaptations of Jane Eyre, Emma, and Great Expectations, the BBC drama series Dickensian, and the feature film Enola Holmes. In 2015 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He lives in Oxford, England.