Laurel Ann Nattress of AustenProse writes "Affairs of the heart populate episode two with hopes and aspirations for all of the unattached characters in Masterpiece Classic's miniseries of Little ...

Writer Andrew Davies applied his quill pen to adapting a number of Jane Austen novels before tackling Charles Dickens' "Bleak House," and he's back with another sprawling, impeccably cast PBS ...

Charles Dickens wrote big, long books, and when his books become movies it’s good to make them big and long as well. His many-tendriled, twisty plots can be pruned and compressed with some success -- ...

My Summer School assignment was going to be “Little Dorrit.” Not that I had passed up “Little Dorrit” on my high school’s summer reading list. It had never been there. Only the most standard of ...

regulars, Christine Edzard`s adaptation of Charles Dickens` ”Little Dorrit” could easily be mistaken for a public television series that has somehow slipped its moorings. But ”Little Dorrit” is a ...

Little Dorrit is not one of Dickens' best-known works, but it contains all the elements required for a compelling drama, as scriptwriter Andrew Davies reveals. "Television has not tackled this novel ...

Book your seats for tomorrow night's first episode of Charles Dickens' Little Dorrit - the latest, wonderfully evocative TV costume drama. For the next seven weeks, indulge in this vivid portrait of ...

When you spend a third of your day with adolescents, you get a close look at social structures--sometimes too close! Although most of my students would scoff at reading 800 pages of nineteenth century ...

Had Charles Dickens told the true story of Little Dorrit - a pretty, gentle mother in her early 30s, who had been abandoned by her common-law husband and had turned to prostitution to provide for her ...

Her name is Amy, but she’s known as the Child of the Marshalsea. Before she was born, her father, William Dorrit, a gentleman, invested in a partnership that went bankrupt. He was brought to the ...

The BBC has been adapting the novels of Charles Dickens for as long as it’s been doing drama. What’s new is the depth and breadth — OK, the length — of the latest TV versions, the most recent being ...