Swimming with my granddaughters put me in mind of Charles Kingsley’s “Water Babies.” Kingsley helped us enter into the rich imaginative lives of children.
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Tag Archives: Charles Dickens
Swimming with the Water Babies
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Why Baltimore Blacks Are Down and Out
Black poverty in Baltimore has racial causes that are invisible to most people. Dickens would understand.
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GOP Budget Proposes Gruel Cuts
Mean-spirited legislators who seek to cut food stamps and other programs for the poor bear more than a little resemblance to the workhouse authorities in “Oliver Twist.”
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The Return of Debtor Imprisonment?!
The fleecing by authorities of the Ferguson Black community, including imprisonment for debt, puts one in mind of Charles Dickens’ “Little Dorrit.”
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Dickens Understood Resentment Well
When resentment threatens to hijack our politics, we would do well to turn to Dickens’ “Little Dorrit.”
Dickens & Our Irresponsible Financiers
“Little Dorrit” is a timely novel about a society plunged into ruin by the shenanigans of financial “wizards.”
Count to Five-and-Twenty, Tattycoram
Working with my grandson’s during a meltdown brought to mind the strategy used to calm Tattycoram in “Little Dorrit.”
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Dickens Returned Christmas to Its Roots
Dickens’ “Christmas Carol” returned the Christmas celebration to its medieval folk roots.
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Clean Air Is Bad for the Nation?!
Republicans complaining about clean air regulations recall the Coketown mill owners in Dickens’ “Hard Times.”
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