You Know My Name (Courtney Love song) Kobalt Label Services, and was supported by a well received eight-date tour of the United Kingdom. Critical reception to "You Know My Name" was largely positive and the single placed in the UK Independent Singles Chart upon its release. An accompanying music video, directed by Maximilla Lukacs, features Love performing "You Know My Name" as a character abandoned on her wedding day inspired by Miss Havisham from Charles Dickens 1861 novel "Great Expectations". "You Know My Name" was written by Courtney Love, guitarist Micko Larkin and bassist Shawn Dailey. It was recorded in early 2014 at Atrium Studios in Calabasas,
Charles Dickens I wonder if there ever was a captain yet that lost a ship with his log-book up to date? He generally has about a month to fill up on a clean break, like Charles Dickens and his serial novels." Dickens's novels were, among other things, works of social commentary. He was a fierce critic of the poverty and social stratification of Victorian society. In a New York address, he expressed his belief that "Virtue shows quite as well in rags and patches as she does in purple and fine linen". Dickens's second novel, "Oliver Twist" (1839), shocked readers with its