Robert Douglas-Fairhurst: A Year That Changed Dickens and the World

Sep 15, 2021, 08:30 AM

This week, I’m joined by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst - whose latest book is The Turning Point: A Year That Changed Dickens and the World. He tells me how 1851 - the year of the Great Exhibition - served as a pivot in Dickens’s own life, and set him on the path to writing Bleak House.