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Happy 214th birthday, Mr. Dickens!
Read More: Happy 214th birthday, Mr. Dickens!It’s Charles Dickens’s birthday, and his descendants — along with the rest of us Dickensians — are celebrating! Lucinda Hawksley is speaking about her great-great-great grandfather at the Great Recitations Dickens Festival, held at the Script Haven Bookshop in Worcester. (She recently gave an interview about how Dickens’s views on fairness make him more relevant…
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First look at Johnny Depp as Scrooge
People has a couple of photos from the London set of Ti West’s new Christmas Carol…
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Dickens Day of Writing seeks mentors
The annual Dickens Day of Writing is fast approaching! The event, which “is both a writing…
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Trailer and release date for ‘Artful Dodger’ season 2
The second season of the Australian series about the Dodger’s adult life comes to Hulu and…
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R.I.P. Michael Slater
Michael Slater, who passed away November 27 at age 88, was a former president of the…
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Searching for Scrooge
Merry Christmas! I recently came across two articles that, though very different, both touch on the…
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‘Christmas Carol’ airings this week
I’ve been so busy this month that I haven’t had time to put together my usual…
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New Dickens collection available from Audible
Audible has released a new audio collection of The Complete Novels of Charles Dickens (links here…
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A report on ‘A Tale of Two Cities’ filming
Hungary Today has a few photos and a video clip that offer glimpses of the actors,…
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‘Christmas Karma’ opens
Gurinder Chadha’s Bollywood adaptation of A Christmas Carol is now playing in cinemas in the U.S.,…
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Dickens conference call for presentations
The Dickens Society will be hosting an online conference February 7 to honor Dickens’s 213th birthday,…
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R.I.P. June Lockhart
The 100-year-old American actress passed away on October 23. She made her film debut in the…
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Dueling Scrooges
Just a few months after the announcement of the upcoming Robert Eggers Christmas Carol adaptation, which…
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TCM alert
The channel will air A Tale of Two Cities (1935) at 5:45 p.m. Eastern today, as…
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Podcast episode on ‘Our Mutual Friend’
I’m trying to catch up on Dickens-related stories I missed over the summer, while Dickensblog was…
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New ‘Christmas Carol’ limited edition from Folio Society
On Tuesday, October 14, The Folio Society will release a new limited edition (only 350 copies…
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Gerald Dickens prepares for USA Farewell Tour
The great-great-grandson of Charles Dickens has been touring the United States with his one-man Christmas Carol…
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R.I.P. Patricia Routledge
The beloved British actress passed away October 3 at age 96. She was best known for…
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A new ‘Tale of Two Cities’ adaptation — for real this time?
I have some exciting news to start off this new iteration of Dickensblog: After years of…
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Two more ‘Christmas Carol’ adaptations
Director Robert Eggers will write and direct a new Christmas Carol for Warner Bros., with Willem Dafoe in…
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A new twist on ‘A Tale of Two Cities’
H. G. Parry, my favorite modern novelist, has written a stellar new fantasy take on A Tale…
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Enchanted by Dickens
I reviewed Peter Conrad's new book Dickens the Enchanter: Inside the Explosive Imagination of the Great Storyteller for…
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A double anniversary
Here's a fact I did not know: The Charles Dickens Museum opened on the 55th anniversary…
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‘The King of Kings’: A review
Though The King of Kings is doing great at the box office, I've seen a number of…
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‘The King of Kings’ releases tomorrow
The animated film based on Dickens's The Life of Our Lord hits movie theaters this weekend. It's currently…
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Lucinda Hawksley lectures on ‘Dickens and Travel’
Sign up at this link to hear her speaking at 5:30 Eastern this evening at Skidmore…
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Household words
When Typepad was down for a significant amount of time a few days ago, I started…
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Inspired by ‘Night Walks’
We've seen fashion inspired by Miss Havisham before, but here's a new one: fashion inspired by…
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A conversation with the author of ‘Fagin the Thief’
Allison Epstein, author of the new Oliver Twist spinoff Fagin the Thief, will be interviewed by longtime friend of…
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‘Oliver!’ cast album released
The cast album of the new Cameron Mackintosh production of Oliver! is now available digitally. (The page I…
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TCM alert
Great Expectations (1946) airs on the channel at 7:30 Eastern this morning, as part of 31 Days…
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TCM alert
A Tale of Two Cities (1935) just started, as part of the channel's 31 Days of Oscar…
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I have proved that Charles Dickens plagiarized “A Christmas Carol” from American couple Mathew and Abby Whittier. My book presenting…