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73: The Ghost of Charles Dickens sitting on Barbara Kingsolver’s Shoulder

73: The Ghost of Charles Dickens sitting on Barbara Kingsolver’s Shoulder

Update: 2024-04-16
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Virginia and Louise do a deep dive into Barbara Kingsolver’s Pullitzer Prize winning and compelling novel Demon Copperhead and talk all things Charles Dickens as well as adding some shameful new entries to the infamous Ick Register.


Books

Oliver Twist, by Charles Dickens, 1838

Hard Times, by Charles Dickens, 1854

Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver, 2023 


More Deep Dives

Emma, by Jane Austen


Television

Emma, mini series,  2009 

Slow Horses, series 1-3 Apple TV+

One Day, Netflix 2023


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Peg Benson

Ladies! I have so greatly missed you. Happy to hear you again. Thank you for this excellent exegesis of Dickens/Kingsolver. Excellent.

Apr 22nd
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73: The Ghost of Charles Dickens sitting on Barbara Kingsolver’s Shoulder

73: The Ghost of Charles Dickens sitting on Barbara Kingsolver’s Shoulder

Virginia Seymour and Louise Jones