http://blog.oup.com/2008/12/christmas_dickens/ Academic insights for the thinking world. Wed, 19 Jun 2013 15:22:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 http://blog.oup.com/2008/12/christmas_dickens/#comment-148755 Lisa Marie Wed, 24 Dec 2008 15:33:57 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=2648#comment-148755 The Seasons in their course, however, though they passed as lightly as the summer clouds themselves, obliterated, in the lapse of time, even these remains of the old conflict; and wore away such legendary traces of it as the neighbouring people carried in their minds, until they dwindled into old wives’ tales, dimly remembered round the winter fire, and waning every year. The Seasons in their course, however, though they passed as lightly as the summer clouds themselves, obliterated, in the lapse of time, even these remains of the old conflict; and wore away such legendary traces of it as the neighbouring people carried in their minds, until they dwindled into old wives’ tales, dimly remembered round the winter fire, and waning every year.

]]> http://blog.oup.com/2008/12/christmas_dickens/#comment-148699 The Battle of Life « Other Stories Thu, 18 Dec 2008 12:25:47 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=2648#comment-148699 [...] last night. I’m coming over all Dickensian, and so would love for you all to pop over to the OUPblog, where I have posted the opening section of one of Dickens’s perhaps lesser known Christmas [...] [...] last night. I’m coming over all Dickensian, and so would love for you all to pop over to the OUPblog, where I have posted the opening section of one of Dickens’s perhaps lesser known Christmas [...]

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