- A production of A Christmas Carol in Great Massingham, Norfolk County, England, raised £2,791 for East Anglia Children's Hospices. A Dickensblog Order of Merit to them for their hard work and kindness!
- A fifth-grade class in Garden City, New York, made their own movie based on A Christmas Carol.
- Linda Grant calls Bleak House a "book of a lifetime." Not a bad article, though I think she's a little off the mark in her remark about religion.
- Actor Lloyd Lee will play Dickens and several of his characters in the one-man show Educating Charlie — Mr. Dickens Looks Back this April on the Isle of Wight.
- The Burlington (Vt.) Free Press has some interviews with the cast of a local production of Oliver! This is the first production of the show I've heard of where a girl has played the title character.
- "When theatre director Edward Lam was invited to create a piece for Hong Kong at the recent World Expo 2010 in Shanghai, a Charles Dickens novel popped up in his head." And why not?
- Henry Mayhew's London Labour and the London Poor, released as a four-volume work in the 1860s, has been re-released. The Washington Post reports, "In Mayhew one encounters the real-life equivalents of such Charles Dickens characters as Fagin, the Jewish receiver of stolen goods; Krook, the rag-and-bottle-merchant; Jo, the sickly crossing sweeper; and the Artful Dodger, leader of a band of youthful pickpockets."
Yes — wouldn’t it be just lovely if Jaggers was exposed as a fraud/fixer/defaulting trustee etc.? He could be packed…
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