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A radical reassessment of the famed Victorian author, revealing the true story behind the creator of some of literature's best-known novels.> Together these have allowed her to come up with a striking hypothesis that the version of his life that Dickens chose to share with his public—both during his lifetime and from beyond the grave in the authorized biography published shortly after his death—was an elaborate exercise in reputation managemen...

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Ned Evans is a rags-to-riches hero, whose early existence in poverty in Wales is dramatically changed when he saves the beautiful Lady Cecilia Rivers from an assault and is invited to Ireland by her father. After spending time with the great and the good of Irish society, Ned travels to America where his fortunes once more reverse.

An iconoclastic re-evaluation of one of English Literature's most celebrated novelists. This book introduces us to a woman living in an age of revolution who used the novel to grapple with the weightiest of subjects: feminism, slavery, abuse, the treatment of the poor, the power of the Church, even evolution.

Now in paperback, this is a reassessment of Jane Austen's work, which argues that she was a radical who wrote about subjects such as feminism, slavery, abuse and the treatment of the poor. Ties in with the 200th anniversary of Jane Austen's death in July 2017. 'A sublime piece of literary detective work' Caroline Criado-Perez, "Guardian

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