Dickens Club… “All Those Thieves and Pickpockets Lurking in Dark Alleyways”: Oliver Twist Onscreen 23 May 202223 May 2022 by Boze We’ve talked before on this blog about the visual nature of Oliver Twist. In terms of cinematic images per page it’s rivaled only by A Tale of Two…
Dickens Club… Making Sense of Fagin, Dickens’ Most Troubling Character 13 Apr 2022 By Boze Herrington What’s a Dickens-lover to make of Fagin? The iconic gang leader and child-stealer in Dickens’ second novel, dark mentor to the orphaned Oliver Twist, has long made…
All the (Dickensian) Year Round 