Month: December 2018

The Pixy, or the Unbaptised child: A Christmas Story

December 23, 2018

In the spirit of the season, I decided to dedicate this blog post to exploring the Gothic in one of Reynolds’s lesser-known short stories, The Pixy, or the Unbaptised Child: A Christmas Story (1848). Written originally in 1848 and later published in Reynolds’s Miscellany in 1850, the story was published in the style of Charles … More The Pixy, or the Unbaptised child: A Christmas Story

Death and Mr Pickwick

December 7, 2018

*Update – an incorrect version of this post was emailed earlier. See below for the amended version. I am sure that some of you know that I am the author of the novel Death and Mr Pickwick, which tells the story behind the creation of The Pickwick Papers. In Death and Mr Pickwick, my original intention was to … More Death and Mr Pickwick