Dickens Club… Our Ten Favorite Moments in the Dickens Chronological Reading Club, from Pickwick to Pictures from Italy 7 Feb 20237 Feb 2023 By Rach and Boze Yo-ho, fellow Dickensians! To celebrate the birthday of the world’s greatest novelist and Day 400 of the Dickens Club, your co-hosts have compiled a list of…
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…
Dickens Club… January 10-30 in the Dickens Club: Pictures from Italy 9 Jan 2023 Wherein we read Dickens's 1846 travelogue of his Italian journey, the thirteenth (and optional) read of The Dickens Chronological Reading Club. "The Goblin of Avignon," by Sol Eytinge, Jr. Scanned…
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… Supplement to Christmas Books 26 Dec 2022 Attached are two chapters from Peter Ackroyd's wonderful little book: "A Christmas Carol & The Chimes" and "The Cricket on the Hearth, The Battle of Life & The Haunter Man…
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…
Dickens Club… Pattern, repetition, revision, and/or morphing of characters, situations, settings, motifs and/or themes 9 Dec 2022 While each of Dickens’s novels can easily stand alone, when taken together they can be seen, ironically in terms of how they were published, as a serial of 14-1/2 numbers.…
Dickens Club… Martin Chuzzlewit: A Final Wrap-Up 5 Dec 2022 Wherein we conclude our journey with Martin Chuzzlewit and wrap up the final week of discussion (Week 48 of the Dickens Chronological Reading Club); with a look-ahead to our break…
All the (Dickensian) Year Round 