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Ever your affectionate Father, Charles Dickens

A letter written in 1868 by Charles Dickens, the bicentenary of whose birth falls today, to his son Henry, who had newly arrived at Cambridge, reveals a touching concern for Henry's welfare in matters physical, moral and spiritual.

For lust of knowing what should not be known

Clare Holtham (1948-2010) had a huge enthusiasm for learning. After a troubled childhood, which led to a spell of homelessness, she became an intrepid traveller and independent-minded student at Newnham College, Cambridge. A book of Clare's poems called The Road from Herat, launched today at Newnham, reflects a life lived to the full. It included working on the buses and a rapid marriage to an Uzbek chieftain.

Festival shines a light on Virginia Woolf

A Cambridge festival draws attention to the work of Virginia Woolf - and uses her work as a creative focus.

The edible nature of words

A workshop at Cambridge University tomorrow will celebrate the rich and varied relationship between words and food, both metaphorically and literally.

The uncensored Jane Austen

The early works of Jane Austen may not be as well remembered as her six novels, but as Janet Todd explained, they reveal a sense of the absurd which helps us to understand both the young writer and the mind behind her best-known work.