![]() ![]() I believe in Miss Havisham in Great Expectations I have encountered one or two individuals who might well have gone in that direction had they only been hugely wealthy, powerful and not afraid of spiders. I think it’s a lot of fun, but the writing suffers from some of the same weaknesses as Dickens himself when it comes to writing about women. We meet a collection of Charles Dickens’ characters in a time before they enter the plots of their respective novels – an idea that had to be either terrible or quite fun. Seven years before the events of Scrooge’s reformation, Tiny Tim is already none too tiny, while the Artful Dodger is already perhaps ten years old and Mr and Mrs Bumble are yet to oversee the birth of his friend Oliver Twist. Along with the central murder mystery prompted by Jacob Marley’s violent death – a natural event in A Christmas Carol – a number of timelines are out of synch. ![]() ![]() In the new BBC series Dickensian, creator and co-writer Tony Jordan is clearly prioritising character over canon. Contains inescapable spoilers for both Dickensian and a number of Charles Dickens’ novels. ![]()
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