Dickens Club… Supplement to David Copperfield 11 Apr 2023 "If there is one book which establishes Dickens's unique presence as a writer who can be considered the last of the great eighteenth-century novelists and the first of the great…
Dickens Club… Supplement to Dombey and Son 23 Feb 2023 Here, as promised, is Peter Ackroyd's chapter on "Dombey and Son". It gives us a brief overview of Dickens's activities and state of mind in the months leading up to…
Dickens Club… Supplement to Christmas Books 26 Dec 2022 Attached are two chapters from Peter Ackroyd's wonderful little book: "A Christmas Carol & The Chimes" and "The Cricket on the Hearth, The Battle of Life & The Haunter Man…
Dickens Club… Pattern, repetition, revision, and/or morphing of characters, situations, settings, motifs and/or themes 9 Dec 2022 While each of Dickens’s novels can easily stand alone, when taken together they can be seen, ironically in terms of how they were published, as a serial of 14-1/2 numbers.…
Crummles & Co (Dickens on stage and screen)… A Toast…to a “Dickens December”! 24 Nov 2022 Wherein the #DickensClub (The Dickens Chronological Reading Club) Proposes a few ideas on group--and other--events going on in the Dickensian Community over the holidays. by John Leech for A Christmas…
Dickens Club… Supplement to Introduction to “American Notes” and “Martin Chuzzlewit” 18 Oct 2022 Attached are Peter Ackroyd's chapters on "American Notes" and on "Martin Chuzzlewit". Please note that the "American Notes" chapter also contains his thoughts on "Pictures from Italy" which we'll be…
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 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.…
Crummles & Co (Dickens on stage and screen)… Supplement to Introduction to “Nicholas Nickleby” 31 May 2022 Attached is Peter Ackroyd’s chapter on "Nicholas Nickleby" !! SPOILER ALERT !! nn-ackroydDownload
Dickens Club… Relationship Patterns 27 May 2022 Part One “Reading through a writer’s entire oeuvre one is often struck by repetitive patterns. These patterns . . . assume their full significance only as they emerge in work…
All the (Dickensian) Year Round 