• As I write this, the 2013 Dickens Universe is finishing up out in California. If any of you were there, we'd love to hear how it went! (Hat tip to David Perdue.)
  • In London, the Charles Dickens Museum has been added to the London Pass, "a sightseeing card providing tourists with entry to over 60 of the city's top attractions."
  • Speaking of the Dickens Museum, I recently ordered from them this set of facsimiles of the serialized version of Edwin Drood. Since then it's gone out of stock again — it seems to go out of stock rather quickly, from what I've seen — but when they get more of them in, I highly recommend them. It's a lovely, well-done set, and it's an especially poignant experience to look at the last one, which features a nice picture of Dickens and a short posthumous tribute.
  • Bob Jones University Museum & Gallery in Greenville, South Carolina, is opening a new exhibit on Dickens tomorrow.
  • The Invisible Woman is set to open on Christmas Day in the U.S. Bah, humbug, say I.
  • For those of you in Montreal, this Dickens-themed September fundraiser for the Montreal Public Library, "Grape Expectations," sounds like fun!
  • The new Great Expectations feature film has been released in New Zealand. Here's a good review.

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  1. Angela Frank Avatar

    I’m excited about the invisible woman. The book’s not bad. Why don’t you like it?

  2. Gina Avatar

    In general, I’m not fond of the “Ooh look, the great man had a secret mistress!” kind of books and movies. Our gossip-oriented culture has such a way of treating such stories as if they’re the only thing worth knowing about a person, and as if they undermine everything else he ever did in his life.
    And the problem is compounded in this case because we actually know so very little about the relationship between Dickens and Ternan. About nine-tenths of what’s out there, as the more rigorous scholars admit, is speculation. But speculation is so often treated as incontrovertible fact.

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