Category: Charities
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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…
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A ‘Carol’ for London
The New York group Everyone's Carol has been invited to perform their adaptation of A Christmas Carol at…
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Dickens, death, and dignity
In the 1850s, St. George's Hospital in London was shockingly careless and disrespectful in its treatment…
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Dickens, food, and wine
Some time ago, I mentioned the "Grape Expectations" fundraiser that will be held at the Montclair…
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7 Quick Takes Friday
As I write this, the 2013 Dickens Universe is finishing up out in California. If any…
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Dickens: The concert
"Hard Times," a benefit concert in Dickens's honor, will be held Saturday in Milngavie, Scotland, to…
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Dickens Bicentennial Fundraiser results
Apologies for the delay — I've been a little behind with everything lately. But at long,…
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Miss Havisham goes to bat for Dickens
Gillian Anderson has been made patron of the Charles Dickens Statue Fund, and will be trying…
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Celebrating the 201st with ‘Great Expectations’
It won't be as big a deal as his 200th, of course, but the Brits have…
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Things are getting hairy
Ian Rons of Cobham, not far from Gad's Hill Place, has won a strand of Dickens's…