Charles Dickens

Top 10 Haunting Items of Clothing in Literature

Top 10 Haunting Items of Clothing in Literature

To be moved by something, to really experience it is the sensation of being haunted. It is a captivation made up of equal parts desire and disgust. It is a haunting. Something to fear and retain as dear, haunting items of clothing in literature are not new. They actually seem to be developing into a [...]

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Top 10 Mad Madams of Fiction

Top 10 Mad Madams of Fiction

So it is said that white-haired, usually bearded, men continue to have control over the arts, over what is read, watched, and seen. Where, then, does that leave the representation of womankind? As servantile home bodies, surely, without minds or passions of their own. This is often the case, although there was also interest in [...]

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