OTD - 30/04/1859 - the first installment of 'A Tale of Two Cities' was published in ATYR.

OTD - 30/04/1870 - CD made his last public appearance - at the Royal Academy Banquet in Burlington House. Other speakers included the Prince of Wales, Gladstone, and Disraeli.

The old £10 banknote featuring author Charles Dickens was issued #OTD in 1992. Take a look at the many stages of his portrait, from finished product to reference photo.

I asked Microsoft's AI to decline a proposal of marriage for me, because of my love of Charles Dickens. No-one offered to marry me, I just have too much time on my hands.

Dickens Fellowship Saw this yesterday Yorkshire Wolds Rly and thought of you at the Dickens Fellowship.

Now it’s been announced to their members, I can reveal that I’ve been asked to be the next President of the International #Dickens Fellowship, starting in August for two years. I’ll be taking over from the brilliant Professor Cathy Waters. I’n really excited about it.

#Goodnight , sleep tight! James Mahoney captures Oliver Twist's innocence here: indeed, he looks so innocent in his sleep that even Fagin, with the Artful Dodger beside him, hesitates to disturb him, victorianweb.org/art/illustrati…

Rivers of filth bear our merry band to the grotesque wonders of Dickensian London — Robert Thicknesse and Lucy Lethbridge go mudlarking with Ben Power and Lee Jackson on our latest episode of Critical Mash
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Exploring Dickens's London - a video I did with Senate House Library youtu.be/mNiBG7quZxw?fe… via YouTube

Kenneth Branagh, Uma Thurman to Voice Star in Charles Dickens-Themed 'King of Kings' (Exclusive) hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-n…

Found a fascinating 1909 poem by #Dickens 's daughter Kate Perugini in the Pall Mall Magazine!

That's odd. One of Charles Dickens' sons who died in the US, has two headstones.

Lantern slide depicting Charles Dickens in his study in Gad's hill.

The plate has a triangular label with the name of the manufacturer, E. G. (Edward George) Wood, and was made around 1890. The dimensions are 8.2 x 8.2 cm.

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DOTD - 25/04/1870 - Daniel Maclise RA, artist friend of CD who painted the 'Nickleby' portrait in 1839. 'For many years I was one of the two most intimate friends and companions of the late Mr Maclise...The gentlest and most modest of men.' Speech at the RA Banquet 30/4/70

DOTD - 25/04/1914 - Ellen Lawless Ternan.

In the Charles Dickens Birthplace Museum, the rent book for Mile End Terrace at the time the Dickens family lived there. Their name is about two thirds of the way down on each page. They paid £35 a year in rent, roughly £7,000 in today's money, out of John Dickens' Navy Pay…

Charles Dickens was famous for his public readings, in which he would perform scenes from his stories.

He would create his own 'scripts' by editing copies of his books, such as this copy of 'Nicholas Nickleby' which has been adjusted with ribbons and paper.

Announcing the call for papers for Dickens Day 2024 - this year's theme is 'Dickens and the Gothic'.

Send your proposals to [email protected] by 30 June and join us in London this October!

The next Central DF meeting will be on Tuesday 30th April at 18.30 The Charterhouse when Professor Christine Skelton will talk on 'Unsettling Sisters-in-Law: the Experience of Dickens and Two Artist Friends'.