
Sorry, Charles: Even Dickens Wasn’t Woke Enough
Rochester’s Guildhall Museum has fallen prey to what C.S. Lewis called “chronological snobbery.”

Rochester’s Guildhall Museum has fallen prey to what C.S. Lewis called “chronological snobbery.”

Now is the perfect time to approach Dickens’ classic, with its perennial themes of repentance and generosity.

“… you never can think what a good place Heaven is, without knowing who He was and what He did.” —Charles Dickens, from The Life of Our Lord