Crummles & Co (Dickens on stage and screen)… The Mystery of Edwin Drood: An Introduction 20 Aug 202420 Aug 2024 Wherein your co-hosts of The Dickens Chronological Reading Club 2022-24 introduce our twenty-fifth and final read together: The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Dickens's last, unfinished novel. The green wrapper for…
Dickens Club… Our Mutual Friend: An Introduction 28 May 202427 May 2024 Wherein your co-hosts of The Dickens Chronological Reading Club 2022-24 (#DickensClub) introduce our twenty-fourth read--and Dickens's final completed novel--Our Mutual Friend. (Banner Image: By James Mahoney.) by Marcus Stone By…
Crummles & Co (Dickens on stage and screen)… Great Expectations and The Uncommercial Traveller: An Introduction 12 Mar 202411 Mar 2024 Wherein The Dickens Chronological reading Club 2022-24 Introduces Great Expectations and (the optional read) The Uncommercial Traveller, our twenty-second and twenty-third reads as a group. (Banner Image: By F.A. Fraser,…
Dickens Club… Little Dorrit: An Introduction 24 Oct 20235 Nov 2023 Wherein The Dickens Chronological Reading Club (#DickensClub) introduces our twentieth group read, Little Dorrit. (Banner Image: filtered collage of Phiz illustrations. Individual scans by Philip V. Allingham for Victorian Web.) "The…
Dickens Club… Hard Times: An Introduction 29 Aug 202329 Aug 2023 Wherein The Dickens Chronological Reading Club (#DickensClub) 2022-24 introduces Hard Times, our nineteenth read as a group. By Boze Hello, friends! “What kind of education should a parent give a…
Dickens Club… Bleak House: An Introduction 13 Jun 202313 Jun 2023 Wherein the Dickens Chronological Reading Club introduces our eighteenth read, Bleak House. (Banner Image: "Night," by Phiz. Image scan by George P. Landow for Victorian Web.) "Tom All Alone's," by…
Dickens Club… David Copperfield: An Introduction 11 Apr 2023 Wherein we introduce the seventeenth read of the Dickens Chronological Reading Club 2022-24, David Copperfield; with a reading schedule and a look-ahead to the coming week. (Banner Image: "I am…
Dickens Club… Dombey and Son: An Introduction 21 Feb 202321 Feb 2023 Wherein we introduce the fifteenth read of the Dickens Chronological Reading Club 2022-24, Dombey and Son; with a reading schedule and a look-ahead to the coming week. (Banner image by…
Dickens Club… The Christmas Books & Pictures from Italy: An Introduction 20 Dec 2022 Wherein we are introduced to Dickens’s five Christmas books (the first of which, A Christmas Carol, is the tenth read of our Dickens Chronological Reading Club 2022-24), along with the…
Crummles & Co (Dickens on stage and screen)… American Notes and Martin Chuzzlewit: An Introduction 18 Oct 202218 Oct 2022 Wherein we are introduced to the sixth of Dickens’ serial novels, Martin Chuzzlewit (the ninth read of our Dickens Chronological Reading Club 2022-24), along with the preceding travelogue American Notes…
All the (Dickensian) Year Round 