Welcome to Dickensblog!
Scroll down to read my latest blog posts about all things Charles Dickens!
-
Featured
Is Dickens offensive?
Read More: Is Dickens offensive?I published a piece in Plough this week about why so many of us still love reading Dickens even when we’re disappointed in his marital behavior. The question I pose is this: “‘Every partaker of his magnificent feasts would be seen to have been a sharer in the plunder of innumerable homes,’ as Dickens wrote…
Recent Posts
-
Sean Astin and Calvin Kassab to star in ‘Scrooge-inspired’ film
Kassab is the latest actor to sign on to play Scrooge, or a version of him.…
-
Dickens on the ‘Guardian’ top 100 list
On the much-discussed new list from The Guardian of the 100 greatest novels published in English,*…
-
Limited off-Broadway run for ‘Edwin Drood’
To celebrate the 40th anniversary of Rupert Holmes’s The Mystery of Edwin Drood musical, the J2…
-
Two new images and a time frame for ‘A Tale of Two Cities’
We haven’t got a release date for the new miniseries yet, but we do at least…
Sign up to get updates from Dickensblog in your inbox!
You’ll be the first to see every new post!
-
Call for papers: “Dickens on Screen” virtual event
The Dickens Society is inviting short papers for this event, to be held online on June…
-
New novel looks at Dickens and Andersen
Released today, Francine Prose’s new novel, Five Weeks in the Country, tells the story of Hans…
-
TCM alert
David Lean’s Oliver Twist (1948) airs today (Saturday) at 2:15 p.m. Eastern on the channel, and…
-
First look images released for ‘A Tale of Two Cities’
We have four new stills of Kit Harington as Sydney Carton, Francois Civil as Charles Darnay,…
-
New BBC 3-part series on Dickens
Later this year, BBC Two and iPlayer will air a limited series on Dickens. It will…
-
Doings at the Dickens Museum
The Charles Dickens Museum recently opened a new exhibition titled “Extra/Ordinary Women,” to “celebrate the real…
-
Happy 214th birthday, Mr. Dickens!
It’s Charles Dickens’s birthday, and his descendants — along with the rest of us Dickensians —…
-
First look at Johnny Depp as Scrooge
People has a couple of photos from the London set of Ti West’s new Christmas Carol…
-
Dickens Day of Writing seeks mentors
The annual Dickens Day of Writing is fast approaching! The event, which “is both a writing…
-
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…
-
R.I.P. Michael Slater
Michael Slater, who passed away November 27 at age 88, was a former president of the…
-
Searching for Scrooge
Merry Christmas! I recently came across two articles that, though very different, both touch on the…
-
‘Christmas Carol’ airings this week
I’ve been so busy this month that I haven’t had time to put together my usual…
-
New Dickens collection available from Audible
Audible has released a new audio collection of The Complete Novels of Charles Dickens (links here…
-
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,…
-
‘Christmas Karma’ opens
Gurinder Chadha’s Bollywood adaptation of A Christmas Carol is now playing in cinemas in the U.S.,…
-
Dickens conference call for presentations
The Dickens Society will be hosting an online conference February 7 to honor Dickens’s 213th birthday,…
-
R.I.P. June Lockhart
The 100-year-old American actress passed away on October 23. She made her film debut in the…
-
Dueling Scrooges
Just a few months after the announcement of the upcoming Robert Eggers Christmas Carol adaptation, which…
-
TCM alert
The channel will air A Tale of Two Cities (1935) at 5:45 p.m. Eastern today, as…
-
Podcast episode on ‘Our Mutual Friend’
I’m trying to catch up on Dickens-related stories I missed over the summer, while Dickensblog was…
-
New ‘Christmas Carol’ limited edition from Folio Society
On Tuesday, October 14, The Folio Society will release a new limited edition (only 350 copies…
-
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…
-
R.I.P. Patricia Routledge
The beloved British actress passed away October 3 at age 96. She was best known for…
-
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…
-
Two more ‘Christmas Carol’ adaptations
Director Robert Eggers will write and direct a new Christmas Carol for Warner Bros., with Willem Dafoe in…
-
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…
Search
Latest Posts
Latest Comments
[…] has a couple of photos from the London set of Ti West’s new Christmas Carol adaptation. Along with Depp…
7 February is Dickens Day, the birthday of Charles Dickens, the English novelist and creator of thousands of immortal characters,…
We must have more Dickensian Why was there only one series There are many characters we need to hear from
There are no comedy parts in A Tale of Two Cities. However, the protagonist, Sydney Carton, is prone to ironical…
Post Categories
- A Child's History of England (1)
- A Christmas Carol (556)
- A Tale of Two Cities (315)
- Activities & events (173)
- All the Year Round (11)
- American Notes (8)
- Articles about Dickens (533)
- Articles by Dickens (35)
- Audio adaptations (4)
- Awards & honors (17)
- Barnaby Rudge (78)
- BBAW (2)
- Birthdays & anniversaries (217)
- Bleak House (109)
- Books about Dickens (190)
- Charities (86)
- Conferences & conventions (45)
- David Copperfield (261)
- Dickens fanfiction (32)
- Dickens films (630)
- Dickens plays (269)
- Dickens references (217)
- Dickensblog Order of Merit (9)
- Dickensblog Pledge Drive (11)
- Dickensian (32)
- Dickensidences (10)
- Dombey and Son (19)
- Games and competitions (78)
- Great Expectations (392)
- Group fanfiction (12)
- Hard Times (50)
- Household Words (5)
- Letters (32)
- Little Dorrit (147)
- Martin Chuzzlewit (41)
- Memorabilia & merchandise (102)
- Memorabilia, merchandise, & museums (246)
- Mindblowing movie mashups (2)
- Nicholas Nickleby (75)
- No Thoroughfare (2)
- Oliver Twist (282)
- Our Mutual Friend (97)
- Pictures from Italy (20)
- Podcasts (10)
- Poetry (2)
- Quotes about Dickens (27)
- Relatives and descendants (141)
- Short stories (24)
- Sketches by Boz (12)
- The Battle of Life (2)
- The Chimes (14)
- The Cricket on the Hearth (6)
- The Haunted Man and The Ghost's Bargain (2)
- The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices (1)
- The Life of Our Lord (25)
- The Mystery of Edwin Drood (112)
- The Old Curiosity Shop (39)
- The Pickwick Papers (69)
- The Uncommercial Traveller (7)
- TV & radio (294)
- Uncategorized (50)
Yes — wouldn’t it be just lovely if Jaggers was exposed as a fraud/fixer/defaulting trustee etc.? He could be packed…