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Author: Rach 🎩🖤

Rach. (Pen name: Sydney Wren.) Scribbler, working on a gothic novel rep'd by Green Light Literary. Seamstress and aspiring expert dolls' dressmaker. Dickens is a way of life.
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Master Humphrey’s Clock: Discussion Wrap-Up

25 Jul 2022
Wherein we say farewell to Master Humphrey--except in his character as the unnamed gentleman who meets Little Nell--and wrap-up our discussion; with a look-ahead to the first week of The…
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Mayors, Maritime Characters, and Mudfog: In Praise of Dickens’ “Public Life of Mr Tulrumble”

23 Jul 2022
--Or, why everyone should read about Bottle-Nosed Ned and partake of the “maritime advantages” of the oozing green waters of Mudfog. by Rach “Ned Twigger in the Kitchen of Mudfog…
Crummles & Co (Dickens on stage and screen)…

Group Watch: The RSC’s Nicholas Nickleby

11 Jul 2022
Wherein we discuss that most Dickensian of stage marvels and adaptations, the RSC's The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby. Friends, several of us, as you know, are enamored of…
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Nicholas Nickleby: A Final Wrap-Up

4 Jul 2022
Wherein we say "farewell" to our theatrical friends as we summarize the plot and discussion of the #DickensClub's Week 5 reading of Nicholas Nickleby; with a look-ahead to our break--including…
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Nicholas Nickleby, Week 5 ~ and a Week 4 Wrap-Up

27 Jun 202227 Jun 2022
Wherein we glance back at the fourth week of the #DickensClub reading of Nicholas Nickleby (week 25 of the Dickens Chronological Reading Club); With General Memoranda, a summary of reading…
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Nicholas Nickleby, Week 4 ~ and a Week 3 Wrap-Up

20 Jun 2022
Wherein we glance back at the third week of the #DickensClub reading of Nicholas Nickleby (week 24 of the Dickens Chronological Reading Club); With General Memoranda, a summary of reading…
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Nicholas Nickleby, Week 3 ~ and a Week 2 Wrap-Up

13 Jun 202213 Jun 2022
Wherein we glance back at the second week of the #DickensClub reading of Nicholas Nickleby (week 23 of the Dickens Chronological Reading Club); With General Memoranda, a summary of reading…
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Prologue of a Finale: a reading from Peter Ackroyd on Dickens’ Death Day

9 Jun 20229 Jun 2022
Wherein we celebrate the life of our Beloved Boz on the anniversary of his death--9 June 1870--with a reading from Peter Ackroyd's biography; and a toast. Little Nell and her…
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Nicholas Nickleby, Week 2 ~ and a Week 1 Wrap-up

6 Jun 202216 Jun 2022
Wherein we glance back at the first week of the #DickensClub reading of Nicholas Nickleby (week 22 of the Dickens Chronological Reading Club); With General Memoranda, a summary of reading…
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“To Look After a Day that is Gone”: Initial Reflections on Memory in Dickens’ Early Novels

1 Jun 20221 Jun 2022
by Rach “To remember happiness which cannot be restored, is pain, but of a softened kind…and memory, however sad, is the best and purest link between this world and a…

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The Dickens Chronological Reading Club 2022-24*

(*Note: This list of "tags" is a work-in-progress. Some of our older posts did not get tagged correctly...Rach is working on it!)

  • Sketches By Boz
  • The Pickwick Papers
  • Oliver Twist
  • Nicholas Nickleby
  • Master Humphrey's Clock
  • The Old Curiosity Shop
  • Barnaby Rudge
  • American Notes
  • Martin Chuzzlewit
  • A Christmas Carol
  • The Cricket on the Hearth
  • Pictures from Italy
  • The Battle of Life
  • Dombey & Son
  • The Haunted Man
  • David Copperfield
  • Bleak House
  • Hard Times
  • Little Dorrit
  • A Tale of Two Cities
A Retrospective on the first year of the Dickens Chronological Reading Club
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