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…
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…
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,…
Crummles & Co (Dickens on stage and screen)… Little Dorrit (2008) Episode Recaps 13-14 22 Dec 202320 Dec 2023 by The Adaptation Stationmaster Episode 13 Mr. Dorrit is frightened to wake up and find that he's slept through the whole morning. Happily, Little Dorrit is there to comfort him.…
Crummles & Co (Dickens on stage and screen)… Little Dorrit (2008) Episode Recaps 7-9 20 Dec 202320 Dec 2023 by The Adaptation Stationmaster Episode 7 This episode picks up right where the last one left off with Affery being locked out of Clennam and Co. Rigaud assists her by…
Crummles & Co (Dickens on stage and screen)… Little Dorrit (2008) Episode Recaps 4-6 19 Dec 20239 Oct 2024 by The Adaptation Stationmaster Episode 4 It's morning and John Chivery is getting himself spruced up to propose. I love that this adaptation includes his habit of fantasizing about inscriptions…
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…
Crummles & Co (Dickens on stage and screen)… Marnie’s Nickleby Diary: Background on the RSC’s Nicholas Nickleby 18 Jul 2022 by Marnie Friends, here are some tips for viewing the RSC's adaptation of Nicholas Nickleby which we're discussing in our Group Watch. Here are some quick links to the various…
Dickens Club… A Passage from John Forster, on the Sketches 16 Feb 202221 Feb 2022 Wherein we take into consideration the opinion on Sketches by Boz of Dickens' close friend, John Forster, from the fifth chapter of Volume One of his "Life." (Supplement to the…
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