Dickens Club… Barnaby Rudge, Week 2 ~ and a Week 1 Wrap-Up 12 Sep 202214 Sep 2022 Wherein we revisit our first week's reading of Barnaby Rudge (Week 36 of the Dickens Chronological Reading Club); with a summary and discussion wrap-up; and a look-ahead to Week Two.…
Dickens Club… Barnaby Rudge: An Introduction 6 Sep 20226 Sep 2022 Wherein we are introduced to the fifth of Dickens’ serial novels, Barnaby Rudge (the sEventh read of our Dickens Chronological Reading Club 2022-24); with a glance at the context of…
Dickens Club… Supplements to Introduction to “The Old Curiosity Shop” and “Barnaby Rudge” 28 Aug 2022 It occurred to me that I had failed to post Peter Ackroyd's chapter on "The Old Curiosity Shop" before we began reading it. So here it is, along with his…
Dickens Club… The Old Curiosity Shop: A Final Wrap-Up 22 Aug 202222 Aug 2022 Wherein we conclude our journey with Nell and the grandfather; with a summary of reading and discussion of the fourth week of The Old Curiosity Shop (Week 33 of the…
Dickens Club… The Marchioness’s Pedigree 16 Aug 2022 SPOILER ALERT - Not of information, rather of a lack thereof. My discussion here will not spoil the resolution of the novel, but will, I think, add substance to it.…
Dickens Club… The Old Curiosity Shop, Week 4 ~ and a Week 3 Wrap-Up 15 Aug 2022 Wherein we revisit our third week's reading of The Old Curiosity Shop (Week 32 of the Dickens Chronological Reading Club); with a summary and discussion wrap-up; and a look-ahead to…
Dickens Club… The Old Curiosity Shop, Week 3 ~ and a Week 2 Wrap-Up 8 Aug 20228 Aug 2022 Wherein we revisit our second week's reading of The Old Curiosity Shop (Week 31 of the Dickens Chronological Reading Club); with a summary and discussion wrap-up; and a look-ahead to…
Dickens Club… The Old Curiosity Shop, Week 2 ~ and a Week 1 Wrap-Up 1 Aug 2022 Wherein we revisit our first week's reading of The Old Curiosity Shop (Week 30 of the Dickens Chronological Reading Club); with a summary and discussion wrap-up; and a look-ahead to…
Dickens Club… Fairies, Fish-Bones and Playing Parliament: In Praise of Dickens’s “Holiday Romance” 30 Jul 202229 Jul 2022 "The Pirate Colonel and His Captive," by Sir John Gilbert. Scanned image and text by Philip V. Allingham. https://victorianweb.org/art/illustration/holiday/6.html by Boze Herrington “Let us in these next holidays, now going…
Dickens Club… 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…
All the (Dickensian) Year Round 