Claire Tomalin

May 27, 2024 | calitreview.com | Claire Tomalin |Elinor Teele

Charles Dickens: A LifePenguin Press, 576 pp. CLR [rating:4.0]Charles Dickens: Puck EverlastingIn my own, admittedly, rather odd version of heaven, God reserves a special place for biographers. I picture it much like a Pompeiian garden – a statue-strewn lawn where David McCullough and Doris Kearns Goodwin can lounge around in togas and quiz John Adams on his medical history.

Mar 19, 2024 | sonderbooks.com | Claire Tomalin

by Claire Tomalin Review posted March 19, 2024. Vintage Books, 1999. First published in 1997. Review written July 6, 2021, from a library book. Okay, I've been posting back reviews without a page on my main website, but this one gets a page, because it needs to go on my Austenalia page. In June 2021, I got to attend a virtual symposium on Jane Austen, sponsored by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the Jane Austen Summer Program.