Category: Birthdays & anniversaries
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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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Dickens conference call for presentations
The Dickens Society will be hosting an online conference February 7 to honor Dickens’s 213th birthday,…
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A double anniversary
Here's a fact I did not know: The Charles Dickens Museum opened on the 55th anniversary…
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Some thoughts on Dickens’s 213th birthday
This is a somewhat different Dickens's birthday post from the lighthearted kind I usually do. Bear…
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Happy 100th birthday to the Dickens Museum!
The Charles Dickens Museum is celebrating its centennial with a brand new exhibition titled "Dickens in…
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Honoring Dickens with a new generation
Today marks the 154th anniversary of the death of Charles Dickens. On Friday, members of the…
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Dickens celebrated on the Isle of Wight
Last month, Ian Dickens, great-great-grandson of the author and former president of the Dickens Fellowship, hosted…
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Happy 212th birthday, Charles Dickens!
Shortly after his birthday in 1868, Charles Dickens wrote to his daughter Mamie, "I couldn't help…
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Portsmouth prepares for Dickens’s birthday
The Charles Dickens Birthplace Museum in Portsmouth will host a birthday celebration tomorrow and offer free…
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Happy 200th birthday (belated), Wilkie Collins!
Dickens's fellow author, friend, and occasional collaborator had his bicentennial yesterday. (My apologies for posting a…