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February 7, 2022

Happy 210th birthday, Charles Dickens!

All hail the Inimitable on this happy occasion! In honor of Dickens's birthday, the Dickens Museum…

January 1, 2022

Happy New Year! Jeremy Parrott of Dickens & Co., who's a Dickensblog reader and a member…

April 1, 2020

Those book reviews are coming, I swear, but first a couple of quick news items: Actor…

November 5, 2018

The drawing has been held, and Art K. is the winner of The Daily Charles Dickens! Congratulations, Art!…

October 29, 2018

Hello, everyone! I'm afraid I've been sadly neglecting this blog in recent weeks. I was busy…

September 20, 2018

Portsmouth Historic Dockyard has commissioned five custom-designed Dickensian Lego figures — of Dickens himself and four of…

December 11, 2016

For U.K. readers, W.W. Norton & Company and the Dickens Museum have five copies of the…

December 21, 2015

Give it a try! I got 24 out of 25. It's not the best quiz ever…

September 8, 2015

How might young Charles Dickens's teachers have described him? In a prizewinning entry for a contest…

August 28, 2015

A trailer has been released for the special new mission from Assassin's Creed Syndicate, featuring Charles Dickens and…