Dickens Club… Dickens Club: Wrapping Up Weeks 3 and 4 of A Tale of Two Cities 29 Jan 202429 Jan 2024 Wherein The Dickens Chronological Reading Club wraps up Weeks 3 & 4 of A Tale of Two Cities, our 21st read; with a chapter summary, discussion wrap-up, and a look-ahead…
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…
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… Responsibility and Its Displacement: A Reflection on Bleak House 23 Jul 202323 Jul 2023 "Jo," by Harry Furniss. Scanned image by Philip V. Allingham for Victorian Web. by Daniel M. “Everywhere and always, when human beings either cannot or dare not take their anger out…
Dickens Club… Narration in “Bleak House”: or, Is she or isn’t she??? 2 Jul 2023 SPOILER ALERT My report contains mention of important plot points that may not be known to first time readers of Bleak House. In my quick research into whether Esther is…
Dickens Club… Supplement to “Bleak House” 13 Jun 2023 SPOILER ALERT ALL THREE OF THESE ARTICLES CONTAIN INFORMATION ABOUT PLOT POINTS THAT WILL SPOIL THE FIRST TIME READER'S EXPERIENCE Here are three critiques of the wonderful Bleak House. To…
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…
All the (Dickensian) Year Round 