To mark Valentine’s Day here are some love-themed stories from Essex history, some with happy endings, some with bloody ones.

50, No. 1, 2019 Great Expectations and the Evolution of ... either due to her criminal birth parents or twisted upbringing by Miss Havisham, both of which can be understood in evolutionary terms.

Pip meets Miss Havisham and Estella for the first time.

When the weather turns dreary, my mind tends to take a mental vacation . . . by planning a dream getaway. If you’re the same—or if you’re lucky enough to, you know, be planning an actual vacation—you ...

In recent years many viewers have accused the national broadcaster of falling prey to obsessive political correctness and ...

There are many reasons to seek out Charles Burnett's long-buried 1999 film, but perhaps primary among them: The rare chance to see Lynn Redgrave, Margot Kidder and James Earl Jones share the screen.

There was something about Christine McVie that evoked the character Miss Havisham in Charles Dickens's novel Great Expectations ... her red-brick Kentish manor house in its sprawling 19 acres ...

The Phoenix concert/music experience assembled five bands for one night only to make a little rock 'n' roll magic.

The big books. The ambitious books, the life-changing books, the long books, the time-consuming books, the dense books. Not ...

Winter 2025 collection, Everything That Stays Is Love, explores memory, longing, and the fragile beauty of the past.