Dickens Club… Formed for One Another? Successful and Unsuccessful Dickensian Loves 19 Oct 20248 Jan 2025 by The Adaptation Stationmaster "'Well, well!' said my aunt. 'I only ask. I don’t depreciate her. Poor little couple! And so you think you were formed for one another, and…
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… “To Look After a Day that is Gone”: Initial Reflections on Memory in Dickens’ Early Novels 1 Jun 20221 Jun 2022 by Rach “To remember happiness which cannot be restored, is pain, but of a softened kind…and memory, however sad, is the best and purest link between this world and a…
Dickens Club… “All Those Thieves and Pickpockets Lurking in Dark Alleyways”: Oliver Twist Onscreen 23 May 202223 May 2022 by Boze We’ve talked before on this blog about the visual nature of Oliver Twist. In terms of cinematic images per page it’s rivaled only by A Tale of Two…
Dickens Club… Oliver Twist: A Final Wrap-Up 16 May 2022 Wherein we say farewell to our little sojourner as we glance back at the fifth week of the #DickensClub journey with Oliver Twist (week nineteen of the Dickens Chronological Reading…
Dickens Club… Oliver Twist, Week 5 ~ and a Week 4 Wrap-up 9 May 2022 Wherein we glance back at the fourth week of the #DickensClub reading of Oliver Twist; With General Memoranda, a summary of reading and discussion, and a look ahead to week…
Dickens Club… Oliver Twist, Week 4 ~ and a Week 3 Wrap-up 2 May 2022 Wherein we glance back at the third week of the #DickensClub reading of Oliver Twist; With General Memoranda, a summary of reading and discussion, and a look ahead to week…
Dickens Club… Oliver Twist, Week 3 ~ and a Week 2 Wrap-up 25 Apr 202225 Apr 2022 Wherein we glance back at the second week of the #DickensClub reading of Oliver Twist; With General Memoranda, a summary of reading and discussion, and a look ahead to week…
Dickens Club… Oliver Twist, Week 2 ~ and a Week 1 Wrap-up 18 Apr 202218 Apr 2022 Wherein we glance back at the first week of the #DickensClub reading of Oliver Twist (week sixteen of the Dickens Chronological Reading Club 2022-23); With General Memoranda, a summary of…
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…
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