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Working Notes for Dickens’s Dombey and Son

22 Feb 2023
Relative to Dickens's "writing lab": on the working notes for Dombey and Son. (Banner Image: from the V & A Collection, linked here.) By Rach and Boze For those who,…
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Dombey and Son: An Introduction

21 Feb 202321 Feb 2023
Wherein we introduce the fifteenth read of the Dickens Chronological Reading Club 2022-24, Dombey and Son; with a reading schedule and a look-ahead to the coming week. (Banner image by…
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This Week in the Dickens Club: The Battle of Life

31 Jan 202331 Jan 2023
A β€œGENERAL MEMS” POST: THIS WEEK (31 JAN - 6 FEB 2023), THE DICKENS CHRONOLOGICAL READING CLUB 2022-24 WILL READ DICKENS’S FOURTH CHRISTMAS BOOK, THE Battle of Life. (Banner images by…
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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…
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…
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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…
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American Notes and Martin Chuzzlewit: An Introduction

18 Oct 202218 Oct 2022
Wherein we are introduced to the sixth of Dickens’ serial novels, Martin Chuzzlewit (the ninth read of our Dickens Chronological Reading Club 2022-24), along with the preceding travelogue American Notes…
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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.…
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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…
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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…

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hellebore, or the "Lenten Rose" - paradoxically represents anxiety, and hope πŸ’šπŸŒ± Early birthday gift from @sketchesbyboze: the Nonesuch #DavidCopperfield! πŸ˜πŸ“šπŸ–€πŸŽ© Together with the #NicholasNickleby he gave me last year, they are just the loveliest books I own πŸ₯Ή After an overnight shift, it's nice to have some holiday downtime to read. β€οΈπŸ“š #TheQuincunx by #CharlesPalliser is such a Dickensian, strange enigma of a book! Mysterious strangers clad in black, corpse candles, dark passageways, Chancery curses... Birthday/Christmas gifts from @sketchesbyboze 😍❀️ (besides the 1863 London maps, of course!) When #DickensClub co-hosts (Rach and Boze!) get together, it is really a Pickwickian Christmas!!! πŸ˜πŸ“šπŸŽ©πŸ–€πŸ–€ Read-alouds, nerdy movies and online webinars, visits to the university library and gifts of books and maps of 1863 London, editing our book reviews for the Dickens Fellowship journal and recording a podcast on #AChristmasCarol, going to the #OregonShakespeareFestival for a spoof on A Christmas Carol (as though our heroine were haunted not by three Spirits but by the Marx Brothers), going to coffeeshops to talk about writing and worldbuilding...and even discovering and watching an old musical of The Pickwick Papers. How I'm going to miss my Dickensian other half! πŸ˜­πŸŽ„β€οΈπŸ’š But it was the greatest Christmas gift ever. With my beautiful sister Maire on her wedding (Oct 1st) πŸ’™πŸ’™πŸ’™πŸ«‚ and the siblings and fam...and, of course, our darling niece! Love you, sis...it was all so beautiful πŸ’™ My #reading corner is beginning to look a lot like (a Dickensian) #Christmas πŸŽ©πŸ–€πŸŽ„πŸŽ„β„οΈβ„οΈ #shareaquote inspired by @pezzasclassicbooks πŸ–€πŸ–€πŸ–€

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