HomeBlog The Wordsworth Blog Weekly articles from a range of guest contributors Jun10 AuthorBookNews Lord Byron 2024 marks the 200th anniversary of poet Lord Byron’s death. Sally Minogue looks at his writing and his life, and… Read More May21 AuthorBook Book of the Week: The Hunchback of Notre-Dame The Hunchback of Notre-Dame is the classic beauty and the beast tale written by Victor Hugo, the author of that… Read More May14 AuthorBookNews Dylan Thomas, Taylor Swift, and ‘Tortured Poets’ On International Dylan Thomas Day, and as Taylor Swift name-checks Dylan Thomas on her new album, The Tortured Poets Department,… Read More May1 AuthorBook Book of the Week: Sense and Sensibility Sense and Sensibility was Jane Austen’s first published but second written novel. Denis Hanrahan Wells takes up the story. She… Read More Apr22 AuthorBook ‘Avay vith melincholly’: The Story Behind ‘The Pickwick Papers’ Stephen Carver rediscovers the pleasures of reading Dickens’ first novel. The Pickwick Papers Dickens had only just celebrated his 24th… Read More Apr10 AuthorBook Elizabeth Gaskell and ‘Wives and Daughters’ Denise Hanrahan Wells looks at Elizabeth Gaskell’s final novel Elizabeth Gaskell died in 1865 leaving behind a wide range of… Read More
