![]() ![]() What happened there?Ĭlaire Tomalin: You're right, boot polish, he had to put the boot polish into jars and cover the jars and label them. ![]() Michael Cathcart: Claire, your book makes it very clear that a great deal of the Dickensian world that we all know had its origins in Dickens' own childhood, and a key experience is his time in this place called the blacking factory, which I take it is a boot polish factory. Claire, welcome to Books and Arts Daily.Ĭlaire Tomalin: Hello, it's wonderful to be talking to Australia, a country I adore, Michael in Melbourne, it is really, really great. On the occasion of Dickens' 200th birthday, Claire Tomlin joins me on the phone from London. It is, I have to say, a total joy to read. Her biographies include studies of Jane Austen, Thomas Hardy, and her magnificent biography of Samuel Pepys, and now this one, Charles Dickens: A Life. My guest this morning is the eminent British biographer Claire Tomalin. Michael Cathcart: Charles Dickens, he is the writer who peopled the magnificent and cruel London of the Industrial Revolution, with some of literature's most memorable characters, the likes of Miss Havisham, Little Nell, and of course David Copperfield. ![]()
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