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Clark Park Celebration
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Clark Park Celebration

by Edward on Feb 7, 2012 • No Comments
A statue of Charles Dickens with Little Nell looking up at him has resided in Clark Park in Philadelphia for over 100 years.  The statue was sculpted a couple decades after Dickens’ death in 1870, however, since the author had requested no public memorials to his memory, the sculptor, Frank Elwell, had a hard time...
Dickens Literary Salon: Pickwick Papers
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Dickens Literary Salon: Pickwick Papers

by Edward on Jan 8, 2012 • 2 Comments
All year long the Free Library of Philadelphia will be holding Dickens Literary Salons.  We’ll be meeting on the third Thursday of every month to discuss a different novel by Dickens in the Elkins Room of the Rare Book Department.  A full schedule can be found here.  The Salons are...
Boz Bicentenary Speakers: Richard Bravo on Pickwick
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Boz Bicentenary Speakers: Richard Bravo on Pickwick

by Edward on Jan 6, 2012 • No Comments
The first event of the Dickens Bicentenary celebration at the Free Library of Philadelphia is on Wednesday, January 11 at 7:30PM.  Richard Bravo, President and Chairman of The Philadelphia Pickwick Club, will speak about Dickens’ first great novel, The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. Bravo is an actor, director and all-round...
Dickens over rice
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Dickens over rice

by Edward on Nov 14, 2011 • No Comments
As part of my Dickens reading, I’m planning on reading the works in as many formats as possible.  I’m fascinated by how the reading experience can be affected when you change the format of the text or the setting of your reading space.  Many of the novels I’ll read in...
Young Dickens
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Young Dickens

by Edward on Oct 15, 2011 • 1 Comment
The iconic image of the older Dickens with beard and penetrating eyes is usually the one that comes to mind when we think of him.  As I read the Pickwick Papers and Sketches by Boz, I try to remind myself that this is how Dickens looked while he wrote them:...
And so it begins with Pickwick
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And so it begins with Pickwick

by Edward on Oct 3, 2011 • No Comments
In which your humble Dickens reader discovers what Pickwickian means . . . I’m beginning my Dickens of a Year with The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club because I like the idea of beginning where his serial readers began.  Sketches by Boz was published in book form (two volumes)...
Dickens of a Year Reading Order
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Dickens of a Year Reading Order

by Edward on Sep 24, 2011 • 1 Comment
My order of reading will be as close as possible to the publication dates, meaning I’ll try to discover Dickens (in a compressed fashion) as his original readers did. I’ll make an exception for the Christmas books, which I’ll read this December. Here’s the order including some of the journalism, but...
The Dickens of a Year Plan
Dickens Reading Project

The Dickens of a Year Plan

by Edward on Sep 24, 2011 • 1 Comment
For the next 365 days I’ll be reading ALL of Dickens (or at least as much as humanly possible).  Here’s my Dickens of a Year plan: 1. I’ll read all the published works of Dickens: novels, short stories, journalism (all that has been identified), as well as many Dickens letters...
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Tomorrow I’ll read more pages

by Edward on Nov 14, 2011 • 5 Comments
Of course, I’m behind in my reading already.  I had an idea this would be a tough project to complete, but I thought I would at least be able to keep up a good reading pace in the first few months.  My initial plan was to read the 21 volumes of the Oxford Illustrated Dickens. ...
I want a Sam Weller.
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I want a Sam Weller.

by Edward on Oct 15, 2011 • 2 Comments
The Pickwick Papers

Act, Scene, Chapter

by Edward on Oct 14, 2011 • No Comments
Dickens was enamoured by the theatre.  He thought of becoming a professional actor and acted in many amateur productions (often of his own devising).  Many of his acquanintances commented on the histrionic nature of his personality.  In public, Dickens was always performing. One can really see the theatrical nature of Dickens in the very structure of the chapters...
The Pickwick Papers

Pickwickian frogs, elephants and monkeys

by Edward on Oct 14, 2011 • 1 Comment
Mrs Leo Hunter’s “Ode to an Expiring Frog” was one of the highlights of Pickwick.  Another reader pointed out to me that Harold Bloom includes the Ode in the Dickens section of his book Genius.  I think I agree: Can I view thee panting, lying On thy stomach, without sighing; Can I unmoved see thee...
Reading Charles Dickens
Dickens Reading Project

Reading Charles Dickens

by Edward on Sep 9, 2011 • No Comments
2012 marks the Charles Dickens Bicentenary and for the next year I will be reading all of Charles Dickens’ published works.  All the novels.  All the stories.  All the journalism.  All the Dickens.  All year.  I’ll also be reading many of Dickens’ letters, biographies and criticism, not to mention watching TV and film adaptations for all the novels.  For the next 365...

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