July 18, 2014
Tags: Dotheboys School, Newman Noggs, Smike, The Infant Phenomenon, Wackford Squeers, Yorkshire
Readers are advised that this post makes the detail of the plot explicit. But you probably weren’t planning on reading the book anyway. My only recollection from reading Nicholas Nickleby in high school is that I liked it. Forty-five years later I understand why I liked it but I don’t see how I got through Read the Rest…
January 28, 2011
Tags: Charles and Camilla, Richmond, Robert Barnard, Yorkshire
I just finished a book set in Yorkshire. You don’t need to know its title because it wasn’t very good and I’ll recommend a better book later on. The point here is that it got me thinking about Richmond, a splendid market town in North Yorkshire which I visited a few years back. I am Read the Rest…
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