Dickens Club… Dickens Club Week 5 (Sketches by Boz) and a Week 4 Wrap-up 31 Jan 202221 Feb 2022 Wherein we take a glance back at the fourth week of the Dickens Chronological Reading Club 2022-23; With a look ahead to week five. Friends, we’re about halfway through our…
Dickens' Works… “. . . the observer as the observed”: supplementary to Sketches by Boz 27 Jan 202228 Jan 2022 In an effort to gain a better understanding of Dickens's / Boz's vision in the Sketches, I visited my basement library of Dickens criticism and pulled out S.J. Newman's wonderful…
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…
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