Dickens' Works… Picturing the Cloisterham of Edwin Drood… 7 Sep 2024 By Rach During a recent long wait that Boze and I spent at the local Social Security Administration office to get my post-wedding name change official, I read the short…
Dickens Club… Supplement to The Mystery of Edwin Drood 20 Aug 2024 * * * SPOILER ALERT * * * ". . . it must rank as Dickens’s strangest achievement.” (174) Ackroyd once again sets the stage for us in terms of…
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… Supplement to Our Mutual Friend 16 Jun 2024 *** SPOILER ALERT *** Many people would now in fact regard it as the greatest of his works . . . Dickens was writing ahead of his time. (169) It…
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…
Dickens Club… Dickens Club: The Uncommercial Traveller 7 May 20244 May 2024 Wherein The Dickens Chronological Reading Club (2022-24) embarks on its 23rd read as a group; with this post as "placeholder" for group comments. by Rach & Boze "But the river…
Dickens Club… Supplement to Great Expectations and The Uncommercial Traveller 12 Mar 2024 SPOILER ALERT “Amongst all the violence, and the sentimentality, and the melodrama, and the comedy, there is always here some sense of transcendence, some visionary apprehension which unites all the…
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… Supplement to A Tale of Two Cities 8 Jan 2024 SPOILER ALERT "Certainly in the novel itself the theme of imprisonment is intimately associated with the idea of renunciation - as if love itself, like a free life, were not…
Crummles & Co (Dickens on stage and screen)… A Tale of Two Cities: An Introduction 2 Jan 20242 Jan 2024 Wherein the Dickens Chronological Reading Club (Jan 2022-Autumn 2024) introduces our twenty-first read, A Tale of Two Cities. (Banner Image: from the 1935 film starring Ronald Colman.) By Rach and…
All the (Dickensian) Year Round 