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Claire Tomalin

Claire Tomalin

journalist, writer, biographer

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1933

Claire Tomalin is an English journalist and biographer known for her biographies of Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy, Samuel Pepys, Jane Austen and Mary Wollstonecraft.

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As he approached his 28th birthday in February 1840, Dickens knew himself to be famous, successful and tired. He needed a rest, and he made up his mind to keep the year free of the pressure of producing monthly installments of yet another long novel.

Claire Tomalin

The thing I love about Rome is that is has so many layers. In it, you can follow anything that interests you: town planning, architecture, churches or culture. It's a city rich in antiquity and early Christian treasures, and just endlessly fascinating. There's nowhere else like it.

Claire Tomalin

Dickens was a part of how the whole celebration of Christmas as we know it today emerged during the 19th century.

Claire Tomalin

'A Christmas Carol' has been described as the most perfect of Dickens's works and as a quintessential heart-warming story, and it is certainly the most popular.

Claire Tomalin

Dickens was a part of how the whole celebration of Christmas as we know it today emerged during the 19th century.

Claire Tomalin

'A Christmas Carol' has been described as the most perfect of Dickens's works and as a quintessential heart-warming story, and it is certainly the most popular.

Claire Tomalin