Tag: Charles Dickens

  • Arts & Culture

    Solving a mystery of 19th-century literary history

    Scholar’s new biography nails down identity of earliest known Black American woman novelist, first theorized by Gates

    Gregg Hecimovich.
  • Campus & Community

    Harry’s books

    A look at the Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Collection at Widener Library.

  • Arts & Culture

    The things they carried

    We get close to long-dead great writers by reading the works they left behind. But there is another way, which can be just as electric and emotional: to see or touch or just be near artifacts from their writing lives.

  • Nation & World

    Guides to the gallows

    The Harvard Law School Library’s “Dying Speeches” collection of English crime broadsides — street literature sold at public executions — is one of the largest in the world and the first to be completely digitized.

  • Campus & Community

    The defense of Ebenezer

    A Winthrop House tradition retakes the airwaves, as WHRB rebroadcasts professor’s defense of Christmas anti-hero Ebenezer Scrooge.

  • Arts & Culture

    ‘Lost’ with Carlton Cuse

    Harvard graduate and award-winning producer Carlton Cuse ’81 returned to campus to offer students a look behind the scenes at his TV show “Lost” and insight into his creative process.