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… Mayors, Maritime Characters, and Mudfog: In Praise of Dickens’ “Public Life of Mr Tulrumble” 23 Jul 2022 --Or, why everyone should read about Bottle-Nosed Ned and partake of the “maritime advantages” of the oozing green waters of Mudfog. by Rach “Ned Twigger in the Kitchen of Mudfog…
Dickens Club… Master Humphrey’s Clock and The Old Curiosity Shop: An Introduction 19 Jul 202219 Jul 2022 Wherein we are introduced to the fourth of Dickens’ serial novels, The Old Curiosity Shop (the fifth and sixth reads of our Dickens Chronological Reading Club 2022-24), and the accompanying…
Dickens Club… Prologue of a Finale: a reading from Peter Ackroyd on Dickens’ Death Day 9 Jun 20229 Jun 2022 Wherein we celebrate the life of our Beloved Boz on the anniversary of his death--9 June 1870--with a reading from Peter Ackroyd's biography; and a toast. Little Nell and her…
Dickens Club… “To Look After a Day that is Gone”: Initial Reflections on Memory in Dickens’ Early Novels 1 Jun 20221 Jun 2022 by Rach “To remember happiness which cannot be restored, is pain, but of a softened kind…and memory, however sad, is the best and purest link between this world and a…
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…
Dickens Club… Supplement to Introduction to “Oliver Twist” 14 Apr 2022 As promised, here is Peter Ackroyd's chapter on "Oliver Twist". !! SPOILER ALERT !! There is a lot of information in this concise essay. Enjoy! ackroyd-otDownload
Dickens Club… Oliver Twist: An Introduction 12 Apr 202213 Apr 2022 Wherein we are introduced to the second of Dickens’ serial novels, Oliver Twist (the third read of our Dickens Chronological Reading Club 2022-23); with a glance at the context of…
Dickens Club… The Pickwick Papers: An Introduction 1 Mar 20221 Mar 2022 Wherein we are introduced to the first of Dickens' serial novels, The Posthumous Papers of The Pickwick Club; with a glance at the context of Dickens' life at the time,…
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