- 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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