Dickens Club… Making Sense of Fagin, Dickens’ Most Troubling Character 13 Apr 2022 By Boze Herrington What’s a Dickens-lover to make of Fagin? The iconic gang leader and child-stealer in Dickens’ second novel, dark mentor to the orphaned Oliver Twist, has long made…
Dickens Club… Oliver Twist: An Introduction 12 Apr 202213 Apr 2022 Wherein we are introduced to the second of Dickens’ serial novels, Oliver Twist (the third read of our Dickens Chronological Reading Club 2022-23); with a glance at the context of…
Dickens Club… The Pickwick Papers: A Final Wrap-Up 11 Apr 202211 Apr 2022 Wherein we reluctantly say farewell to our Pickwickian friends as we glance back at the sixth week of the #DickensClub journey with The Pickwick Papers (week fourteen of the Dickens…
Dickens Club… The Pickwick Papers, Week 6 ~ and a Week 5 Wrap-up 4 Apr 2022 Wherein we glance back at the fifth week of the #DickensClub reading of The Pickwick Papers (week thirteen of the Dickens Chronological Reading Club 2022-23); With General Memoranda, a summary…
Dickens Club… The Pickwick Papers, Week 5 ~ and a Week 4 Wrap-up 28 Mar 2022 Wherein we glance back at the fourth week of the #DickensClub Reading of The Pickwick Papers (week twelve of the Dickens Chronological Reading Club 2022-23); With General Memoranda, a summary…
Dickens Club… The Pickwick Papers, Week 4 ~ and a Week 3 Wrap-up 21 Mar 2022 Wherein we glance back at the third week of the #DickensClub Reading of The Pickwick Papers (week eleven of the Dickens Chronological Reading Club 2022-23); With General Memoranda, a summary…
Dickens Club… The Pickwick Papers, Week 3 ~ and a Week 2 Wrap-up 14 Mar 202215 Mar 2022 Wherein we glance back at the second week of the #DickensClub Reading of The Pickwick Papers (week ten of the Dickens Chronological Reading Club 2022-23); With General Memoranda, a summary…
Dickens Club… The Pickwick Papers, Week 2 ~ and a Week 1 Wrap-up 7 Mar 20227 Mar 2022 Wherein we glance back at the first week of the #DickensClub Reading of The Pickwick Papers (week nine of the Dickens Chronological Reading Club 2022-23); With General Memoranda, a summary…
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 Club… The Pickwick Papers: An Introduction 1 Mar 20221 Mar 2022 Wherein we are introduced to the first of Dickens' serial novels, The Posthumous Papers of The Pickwick Club; with a glance at the context of Dickens' life at the time,…
All the (Dickensian) Year Round 