Thank you, Raimey, delighted you enjoyed it.

Hi Carol, thank you for your interesting comments. What also strikes me is that so many 18th and 19th century writers began as dramatists – developing their talents with scenes and dialogue – maybe there’s a tip there! Dicken’s own story is fascinating. It was in his second magazine, All Year Round (a two-penny weekly)that he began to serialise novels by named authors, including George Eliot, and publish short stories, an innovation for the time. The history of stories and writers is all so intriguing, it’s hard to know where to stop!