Dickens Club… From The Sketches to The Chimes: A Year-One Dickens Club Retrospective 4 Jan 20234 Jan 2023 Wherein we revisit the first year of the Dickens Chronological Reading Club (4 Jan 2022-4 Jan 2023); with links to Introductions and Wrap-Ups; with a little correspondence from your co-hosts.…
Dickens Club… This Week in the Dickens Club: The Cricket on the Hearth 2 Jan 202328 Jan 2023 A “GENERAL MEMS” POST: THIS WEEK (3-9 JAN 2023), THE DICKENS CHRONOLOGICAL READING CLUB 2022-24 WILL READ DICKENS’S THIRD CHRISTMAS BOOK, THE CRICKET ON THE HEARTH. (BANNER IMAGES BY RICHARD DOYLE)…
Dickens Club… This Week in the Dickens Club: The Chimes 26 Dec 202226 Dec 2022 A "General Mems" post: this week (27 Dec 2022 to 2 Jan 2023), the Dickens Chronological Reading Club 2022-24 will read Dickens's second Christmas Book, The Chimes. (Banner images by…
Dickens Club… 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…
Dickens Club… 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…
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… Dickens Reading Club Check-in ~ Please Vote! 20 Apr 202220 Apr 2022 Wherein we make a proposal for a possible change to our reading schedule; with a poll. Mr. Guppy files a declaration... Friends, a quick check-in after these months of Dickensian…
Dickens Club… Supplement to Introduction to Sketches & Pickwick 3 Mar 2022 To supplement the absolutely fabulous introductions provided by our own Inimitable Wren I've attached below those provided by Peter Ackroyd for both "Sketches by Boz" and "Pickwick Papers". His little…
Dickens' Works… “So Frail a Machine” and “The Carnivalesque City” 13 Feb 2022 I offer two articles for your reading pleasure that I feel enhance and add depth to the Sketches and Dickens's/Boz's accomplishment. “Sketches by Boz, ‘So Frail a Machine’” by Danielle…
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