Dickens Club… Dickens Club Week 4 (Sketches by Boz) and a Week 3 Wrap-up 24 Jan 202221 Feb 2022 Wherein we take a glance back at the third week of the Dickens Chronological Reading Club 2022-23; With a look ahead to week four. Friends, we’re about to begin Week…
Dickens' Works… Dickens & Women’s Education 20 Jan 2022 In "Chapter 9 – London Recreations" Dickens pauses to comment causticly on "the course female education has taken of late days” saying: Whether the course female education has taken of…
Dickens Club… Dickens Club Week 3 (Sketches by Boz) and a Week 2 Wrap-up 17 Jan 202221 Feb 2022 Wherein we take a glance back at the second week of the Dickens Chronological Reading Club 2022-23; With a look ahead to week three. Friends, we’re about to begin Week…
Dickens Club… Dickens Club Week 2 (Sketches by Boz) and a Week 1 Wrap-up 10 Jan 202221 Feb 2022 Wherein we take a glance back at the first week of the Dickens Chronological Reading Club 2022-23—with agenda items, including the Member List; With a look ahead to week two.…
Dickens Club… Member List for the Dickens Chronological Reading Club 2022-23 10 Jan 202222 May 2023 The Dickensians. Dear Fellow Dickensians! Here is our running list for members of the Dickens Chronological Reading Club 2022-23, in case you wish to follow any of the other members!…
Dickens Club… Sketches by Boz: A Brief Introduction 4 Jan 202221 Feb 2022 Wherein we are introduced to Sketches by Boz and the Inimitable’s first published story, "A Dinner at Poplar Walk"; On the publication of collected Sketches; On his alias, "Boz"; Touching…
Dickens Club… The Dickens Chronological Reading Club 2022-23 2 Jan 202213 May 2022 Wherein the 2022-23 DCRC is defined, and schedule proposed; Taking its cue from the Corresponding Society of the Pickwick Club, the DCRC’s resident Wren promises to “forward, from time to…
About… Miss Wren Welcomes You 31 Dec 20212 Jan 2022 "There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast."~The Pickwick Papers Wherein a Decision is made; On changes to come in January 2022; On…
Uncategorized In Defense of Woundedness, of Failure, and of Frodo: A Personal Reflection with Tolkien’s Letters 19 Oct 202119 Oct 2021 [ALERT: If you are not familiar with the end of The Lord of the Rings, do not continue…] It is that time of year again, my favorite time—the season that…
Uncategorized Remembering Roger Rees, and his Nicholas Nickleby 9 Jul 202110 Jan 2022 “Is this a theatre?” whispered Smike, in amazement; “I thought it was a blaze of light and finery.” “Why, so it is,” replied Nicholas, hardly less surprised; “but not by…
All the (Dickensian) Year Round 