Category: Articles about Dickens
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On this day
Today marks the 156th anniversary of Charles Dickens’s death. As The Times wrote in its obituary…
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Is Dickens offensive?
I published a piece in Plough this week about why so many of us still love…
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Happy 214th birthday, Mr. Dickens!
It’s Charles Dickens’s birthday, and his descendants — along with the rest of us Dickensians —…
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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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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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Dickens on the New Year
It's pretty late in the month for this, but I wanted to share this lovely reflection…
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More on the new Oxford editions of Dickens
Joel J. Brattin, co-editor of the new Oxford University Press edition of Nicholas Nickleby, talks here about the…
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Behind the scenes of ‘In Dialogue with Dickens’
At OUPblog, Rosemarie Bodenheimer and Philip Davis have an interesting post up about how they co-wrote…
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Dickens at the Swan
Script Haven bookshop in Worcester, England, is applying for a blue plaque to commemorate Dickens's visit…
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Dickens and the magic of Christmas
"Dickens really loved Christmas. It’s a theme he wrote about regularly. In 1851, eight years after…