Category: Charities
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Coutts and Dickens
The Coutts Foundation website has a new article up about the woman who inspired its founding,…
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Recent Dickens sightings
A few mentions of Dickens in recent or upcoming novels: According to The Washington Post, Dickens's efforts with Urania…
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A ‘Christmas Carol’ roundup
'Tis the season for news stories about A Christmas Carol! Here are a few good ones: Les…
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Dickens and the Great Ormond Street Hospital
An article in the Independent gives details of Dickens's long involvement with the hospital and the various…
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New play shines spotlight on Angela Burdett-Coutts
I was intrigued to learn that British writer and historian Lauren Johnson has written a play…
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Dickens gets ‘Pigeonholed’
The new website The Pigeonhole is serializing Great Expectations in weekly installments. A subscription is free (they'll send…
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Benched
This summer, 50 benches inspired by great literary works were placed around London by Books about…
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Running for Dickens
Dickens Musuem volunteer Emily Ford is going to run 10K around Richmond Park next month to…
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Charity runs in the family
Forty years ago, Monica Dickens, great-granddaughter of Charles Dickens, founded the first U.S. branch of the…
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Dickens letter going up for auction
It's a letter from Dickens to Georgiana Morson, matron of Urania Cottage, making arrangements for the…