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An amazing Oxford scholar, Emma Smith, did a podcast called 'Not Shakespeare' about famous Elizabethan and Jacobean drama, I honestly cannot recommend it highly enough if you like learning about...

I understand your feeling so well. I'm in my last term of undergraduate and about to start an MA and constantly doubting whether I'm smart enough. I can honestly say that never have I understood more...

It's a very hard read. I read part of it a couple of years ago and couldn't make head or tail of it. From all the praise I'm hearing of it, I need to try again. But I wouldn't say it's anywhere near...

Well, maybe 'hate' isn't what I mean... I respect the book as a well-written and important classic (etc etc), but it just isn't for me. I find Gaskell's style unwieldy and annoying and all her books...

Yes, I always feel terrible about Dora, sometimes I think Dickens' most interesting characters are the ones that he doesn't care enough about. Personally, I always thought that the relationship...

I hate her, but Elizabeth Gaskell's Mary Barton has some vivid representations of working-class Manchester life.