Dickens Club… Dickens Club: Wrapping up Weeks 1 & 2 of Hard Times 11 Sep 202310 Sep 2023 WHEREIN WE REVISIT OUR first and second WEEK’S READING OF Hard Times (WEEKS 87-88 OF THE DICKENS CHRONOLOGICAL READING CLUB 2022-24); WITH A CHAPTER SUMMARY AND DISCUSSION WRAP-UP; CONTAINING A LOOK-AHEAD TO…
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: A Final Wrap-Up 14 Aug 202314 Aug 2023 WHEREIN WE REVISIT OUR final weeks (weeks 7-9) of Bleak House (WEEKs 82-84 OF THE DICKENS CHRONOLOGICAL READING CLUB 2022-24); WITH A CHAPTER SUMMARY AND DISCUSSION WRAP-UP; including a final…
Crummles & Co (Dickens on stage and screen)… Bleak House (2005) Episode Recaps 13-15 11 Aug 202317 Aug 2025 by The Adaptation Stationmaster Episode 13 Inspector Bucket asks Clamb if he saw a woman with a black fringed shawl outside Tulkinghorn's office the night of the murder. Clamb says…
Crummles & Co (Dickens on stage and screen)… Bleak House (2005) Episode Recaps 10-12 10 Aug 202317 Aug 2025 by The Adaptation Stationmaster Episode 10 This is the first episode to be directed by Susannah White rather than Justin Chadwick. I feel like I can kind of tell the…
Crummles & Co (Dickens on stage and screen)… Bleak House (2005) Episode Recaps 7-9 9 Aug 202311 Apr 2024 by The Adaptation Stationmaster Episode 7 We learn right away in this adaptation which characters are responsible for Jo's disappearance though we don't exactly know how. Almost the first thing…
Crummles & Co (Dickens on stage and screen)… Bleak House (2005) Episode Recaps 4-6 8 Aug 202311 Apr 2024 by The Adaptation Stationmaster Episode 4 Kenge hands the training of Richard over to Guppy. Burn Gorman does a great job of conveying through his facial expressions that Guppy is…
Crummles & Co (Dickens on stage and screen)… Bleak House (2005) Episode Recaps 1-3 7 Aug 202311 Apr 2024 by The Adaptation Stationmaster In this series, I'm going to go through each episode of the 2005 miniseries adaptation of Bleak House, more or less, scene by scene. (There may…
Dickens Club… Updated Schedule: The Dickens Chronological Reading Club 2022-24 6 Aug 202321 Jul 2024 Wherein we propose the latest amended schedule to accommodate an extended reading time, based on the group's vote. By Rach and Boze Friends and fellow Dickensians, we have had two…
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