Every author makes choices about how to tell a story — choices about voice, structure, language, and form that are as significant as the story’s content. In Hard Times, Dickens […]
Victorian England had a very clear idea of what women were for. They were to be wives, mothers, and domestic managers — the ‘angel in the house,’ as the poet […]
Hard Times is set in a fictional industrial town called Coketown — a name that is itself a declaration. ‘Coke’ refers to the processed coal fuel that powered Victorian factories, […]
When Charles Dickens published Hard Times in 1854, he was writing in response to a very specific moment in British history — a moment defined by factories, statistics, and a […]
