A stamp of recognition, it flags up Ordnance Terrace in Chatham, Kent as the one-time home of Charles Dickens ... see the hulks (prison ships) from Great Expectations.' The Medway skyline is ...
ROCHESTER is thought to have inspired Charles Dickens more than any other ... inspired the home of Estella and Miss Havisham in Great Expectations. Rochester was used as a filming location for ...
A lot of Charles Dickens novels have been adapted into movies. One of the more notorious adaptations is Alfonso Cuarón's Great Expectations from 1998. Starring Gwyneth Paltrow as Estella and Ethan ...
Set during the French Revolution, this historical novel contrasts love and sacrifice through the lives of Charles Darnay and Sydney Carton amid political turmoil. A satirical critique of the British ...
Head to the Charles Dickens Museum, where James Swanton does a bally good impression of the great author as he rollicks through the festive novella. Simon Callow reads his favourite extracts from ...