Dickens Club… This Week in the Dickens Club: The Cricket on the Hearth 2 Jan 202328 Jan 2023 A “GENERAL MEMS” POST: THIS WEEK (3-9 JAN 2023), THE DICKENS CHRONOLOGICAL READING CLUB 2022-24 WILL READ DICKENS’S THIRD CHRISTMAS BOOK, THE CRICKET ON THE HEARTH. (BANNER IMAGES BY RICHARD DOYLE)…
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… This Week in the Dickens Club: The Chimes 26 Dec 202226 Dec 2022 A "General Mems" post: this week (27 Dec 2022 to 2 Jan 2023), the Dickens Chronological Reading Club 2022-24 will read Dickens's second Christmas Book, The Chimes. (Banner images 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…
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.…
Dickens Club… Martin Chuzzlewit: A Final Wrap-Up 5 Dec 2022 Wherein we conclude our journey with Martin Chuzzlewit and wrap up the final week of discussion (Week 48 of the Dickens Chronological Reading Club); with a look-ahead to our break…
Dickens Club… Martin Chuzzlewit, Week 4 ~ and a Week 3 Wrap-Up 28 Nov 202228 Nov 2022 Wherein we revisit our third week’s reading of Martin Chuzzlewit (Week 47 of the Dickens Chronological Reading Club); with a chapter summary and discussion wrap-up; containing a look-ahead to Week…
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… Martin Chuzzlewit, Week 3 ~ and a Week 2 Wrap-Up 21 Nov 2022 Wherein we revisit our second week’s reading of Martin Chuzzlewit (Week 46 of the Dickens Chronological Reading Club); with a chapter summary and discussion wrap-up; containing a look-ahead to Week…
Dickens Club… Martin Chuzzlewit, Week 2 ~ and a Week 1 Wrap-Up 14 Nov 202214 Nov 2022 Wherein we revisit our first week’s reading of Martin Chuzzlewit (Week 45 of the Dickens Chronological Reading Club); with a chapter summary and discussion wrap-up; containing a look-ahead to Week…
All the (Dickensian) Year Round 