Dickens Club… Supplement to Little Dorrit 29 Oct 2023 SPOILER ALERT Below please find Peter Ackroyd's and G.K. Chesterton's brief discussions of Little Dorrit, as well as a very recent article by Sharon Aronofsky Weltman. “. . . in…
Dickens Club… Supplement to “Hard Times” 6 Sep 2023 Here are Peter Ackroyd's and G.K. Chesterton's brief discussions of "Hard Times". Both seek to explain just what it was Dickens was striving to do in this novel and therefore…
Dickens Club… Hard Times: An Introduction 29 Aug 202329 Aug 2023 Wherein The Dickens Chronological Reading Club (#DickensClub) 2022-24 introduces Hard Times, our nineteenth read as a group. By Boze Hello, friends! “What kind of education should a parent give a…
Dickens Club… Bleak House: An Introduction 13 Jun 202313 Jun 2023 Wherein the Dickens Chronological Reading Club introduces our eighteenth read, Bleak House. (Banner Image: "Night," by Phiz. Image scan by George P. Landow for Victorian Web.) "Tom All Alone's," by…
Dickens Club… “A Glimpse into Mysteries”: Harry Stone on the “Tempest” Chapter in David Copperfield 16 May 202316 May 2023 A "Dickens's Writing Lab" post; an Excerpt from Harry Stone's Dickens' Working Notes for His Novels on the details of his "Tempest" chapter in David Copperfield; with brief commentary. Edited…
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… David Copperfield: An Introduction 11 Apr 2023 Wherein we introduce the seventeenth read of the Dickens Chronological Reading Club 2022-24, David Copperfield; with a reading schedule and a look-ahead to the coming week. (Banner Image: "I am…
Dickens Club… 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,…
Dickens Club… 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…
Dickens Club… This Week in the Dickens Club: The Battle of Life 31 Jan 202331 Jan 2023 A “GENERAL 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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