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…
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…
Dickens Club… Martin Chuzzlewit, Week 4 ~ and a Week 3 Wrap-Up 28 Nov 202228 Nov 2022 Wherein we revisit our third week’s reading of Martin Chuzzlewit (Week 47 of the Dickens Chronological Reading Club); with a chapter summary and discussion wrap-up; containing a look-ahead to Week…
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… Martin Chuzzlewit, Week 3 ~ and a Week 2 Wrap-Up 21 Nov 2022 Wherein we revisit our second week’s reading of Martin Chuzzlewit (Week 46 of the Dickens Chronological Reading Club); with a chapter summary and discussion wrap-up; containing a look-ahead to Week…
Dickens Club… Martin Chuzzlewit, Week 2 ~ and a Week 1 Wrap-Up 14 Nov 202214 Nov 2022 Wherein we revisit our first week’s reading of Martin Chuzzlewit (Week 45 of the Dickens Chronological Reading Club); with a chapter summary and discussion wrap-up; containing a look-ahead to Week…
All the (Dickensian) Year Round 