Claire Tomalin’s literary biographies – of Thomas Hardy, Samuel Pepys, Charles Dickens and Katherine Mansfield, among others – aren’t so much massive biographies of record as fresh, engaging, ...

Literary biographer Tomalin tells of her conflicting desires to have children and to lead a meaningful working life in her memoir. Originally... Claire Tomalin Moves 'Between The Trivial And The ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Samuel Pepys (1633–1703) is the most famous diarist in English letters. From 1660 t0 1669, he penned an unforgettable day-by-day description of Restoration London, with its disasters (the Great Plague ...

Claire Tomalin’s literary biographies — of Thomas Hardy, Samuel Pepys, Charles Dickens and Katherine Mansfield, among others — aren’t so much massive biographies of record as fresh, engaging, ...

No one agrees on when the modern era began. Claire Tomalin thinks it started Jan. 1, 1660, when Samuel Pepys began writing literature’s most celebrated diary, which she says, shows Pepys to be the ...

Charles Dickens published his first story in a London monthly at age 22. Although he wasn’t paid and it appeared without his name, he was so overcome with joy and pride it took him half an hour to ...

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