Category: Dickensblog Order of Merit

  • For services to humanity

    Heartfelt thanks to Colin Dickey, whose essay in The New Republic (excerpted from the book Scratch, edited by…

  • And the Dickensblog Order of Merit goes to . . .

    Katharine and Ryan Taylor, who named their new daughter Ada Clare! (Katharine is a Facebook/LiveJournal friend…

  • And the Dickensblog Order of Merit goes to . . .

    Congratulations to Kenia Coyoy and Karen Molina, high school students from Los Angeles who won trips…

  • Ideas for teaching Dickens

    Sounds like the English department at South Nottinghamshire Academy is doing it right — and successfully…

  • Now that’s dedication

    To raise funds for the Alzheimer's Society, 61-year-old Iain Dempster will run the London Marathon dressed…

  • 7 Quick Takes Friday

    A production of A Christmas Carol in Great Massingham, Norfolk County, England, raised £2,791 for East…

  • 7 Quick Takes Friday

    Twist headed for Broadway? Could be . . . Singer/songwriter Morrissey likes Dickens "because he was…

  • Dickens across America

    Residents of Mansfield, Texas, are reading Matthew Pearl's The Last Dickens for their annual Mansfield Reads!…

  • ‘Edwin Drood’ (1935): Meet the cast

    When you watch as much Turner Classic Movies as I do, you soon realize that for…