Author: Miriam Helmers

Miriam Helmers focuses her PhD at University College London on figurativeness in Charles Dickens, researching a potential connection between his unique style of figurative comparison and embodied "make-believe" in performances of Dickens (performed readings and adaptations). She holds an MA in English Language from the University of British Columbia (2019) and a BA in English from the University of Toronto (2011), both in Canada. After teaching for two years at a high school in Toronto, she completed a BDiv in Theology at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross in Rome, Italy (2016) before returning to Canada and to her first love of English literature to pursue a career in academia. Her other interests include all things theatrical and pedagogical, the history and structure of the English language, Old English, biblical exegesis, and ecclesiastical Latin.
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Dickens makes the impossible possible: Charles Dickens, Reporter?

In this guest post, Miriam Helmers (University College London) draws on how different digital tools and sources to examine the relationship between Dickens’s journalism and his fiction. She reports very interesting insights into the writer’s use of “a fantastic kind of descriptive language”. Charles Dickens was a reporter before he was a writer of fiction. … Continue reading “Dickens makes the impossible possible: Charles Dickens, Reporter?”

17 March 2020 by