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When I wrote about Mary Wollstonecraft, I found that here she was, in the late 18th century, going to work for the 'Analytical Review.' What was the 'Analytical Review?' It was a magazine that dealt with politics and literature.

~Claire Tomalin

Topics: About Analytical Century Dealt Found Going Here Late Literature Magazine Mary Politics Review She Work Wrote 18Th Century

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I have been left-wing always, from childhood.

~Claire Tomalin

Topics: Always Been Childhood Left-Wing

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Dickens is always full of surprises.

~Claire Tomalin

Topics: Always Dickens Full Surprises

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Throughout his life, Dickens cared passionately about orphans.

~Claire Tomalin

Topics: About Cared Dickens His Life Orphans Passionately Throughout

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As a young man, Dickens worked as a reporter in the House of Commons and hated it. He felt that all politicians spoke with the same voice.

~Claire Tomalin

Topics: Commons Dickens Felt Hated He House House Of Commons Man Politicians Reporter Same Spoke Voice Worked Young Young Man

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Dickens never joined a political party nor put forward a political programme. He was a writer who rightly saw his power as coming through his fiction.

~Claire Tomalin

Topics: Coming Dickens Fiction Forward He His Joined Never Nor Party Political Political Party Power Programme Put Rightly Saw Through Who Writer

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Because my father is French, my first school was the Lycee Francais de Londres in Kensington.

~Claire Tomalin

Topics: Because Father First French School

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'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

Topics: Been Carol Certainly Christmas Dickens Most Perfect Popular Quintessential Story Works

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Most writers can tell stories of how their books failed to be made into films.

~Claire Tomalin

Topics: Books Failed Films How Made Most Stories Tell Writers

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I had forgotten until I looked up old notes that I sold the film rights of my first book, a life of Mary Wollstonecraft: there was a lunch, a contract, a small sum of money, then nothing.

~Claire Tomalin

Topics: Book Contract Film First Forgotten Had Life Looked Lunch Mary Money Notes Nothing Old Rights Small Sold Sum Then Until Up

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Author

Born: June 20th, 1933

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