A wonderful talk by Dr Jeremy Parrott Dickens Fellowship The Charterhouse this evening 👏👏

DOTD - 29/10/1864 - John Leech, illustrator of 'A Christmas Carol' and the other Christmas books.

Film of the day - Nicholas Nickleby (1947) A very good version of the Charles Dickens classic novel starring Derek Bond, Sally Ann Howes, Cedric Hardwicke, Stanley Holloway, Bernard Miles, Vida Hope and Aubrey Woods Film4 4.10pm this afternoon #CharlesDickens #DerekBond

Today is the birthday of Catherine Elizabeth Macready Perugini, the younger Dickens daughter. She was born here in 1839 and was still alive when we opened as a museum in 1925. Lucinda Hawksley will be giving a talk on Katey TODAY at 2pm (UK Time). dickensmuseum.com/blogs/all-even…

My latest #Substack is about the portrait painter Kate Perugini (1839-1929) who was born #OTD at 48 Doughty Street, London - now the Charles Dickens Museum lucindahawksley.substack.com/p/celebrating-…

One of my absolute highlights working at the Dickens Museum was seeing this Leech sketch up close. This was the first time Scrooge had EVER been depicted artistically, and he has barely changed since! Plus Marley's ghost has some of the greatest lines in literature...

Did you manage to catch Lucinda Hawksley's brilliant talk on Katey Dickens yesterday? If not, don't worry! We recorded the session and its now available on our Youtube channel! youtu.be/SIPBTrSJScg Enjoy!

The White Hart Inn, Southwark, was demolished 8 years after this photo was taken in 1889. Although the Inn was pulled down, it was memorialised in literature by William Shakespeare in 'Henry VI Part Two' and Charles Dickens in 'The Pickwick Papers.' 🍻

DOTD - 01/11/1793 in Newgate Prison after converting to Judaism - Lord George Gordon, leader of the Protestant Association, and instigator of the Gordon Riots of 1780 described in 'Barnaby Rudge'.

Join me at the historic #Whitby pub The White Horse and Griffin this Saturday night (8 November) for a very special Dickens-and Whitby themed evening whitbylitfest.org.uk/event/what-the…

OTD - 05/11/1605 - the discovery of the Gunpowder Plot and apprehension of Guy Fawkes. 'There was unquestionably a Chuzzlewit in the Gunpowder Plot, if indeed the arch-traitor, Fawkes himself, were not a scion of this remarkable stock; as he might easily have been.' MC 1

Charles Dickens at The Portico aboutmanchester.co.uk/charles-dicken… via @aboutmcr

Bonchurch period house once home to Charles Dickens up for sale ift.tt/N3ESYLM

How did Dickens ever find the time to write anything when he was frequenting every pub in Kent continually?

Join me at 2.30pm on 1 December for my Dickens & Christmas walking tour of London. Tickets are on sale now on Eventbrite. eventbrite.co.uk/e/dickens-chri…

Many congratulations to the DF President, Lucinda Dickens Hawksley, on her election to the Management Committee of the Society of Authors.

Dickens Fellowship’s speaker at The Charterhouse in London next Tuesday - 18 November - is Professor Carolyn Oulton of Canterbury Christ Church University. 6pm for 6:30pm start.

OTD - 13/11/1849 - CD attended the execution of the Mannings at Horsemonger Lane Gaol. "I believe that a sight so inconceivably awful as the wickedness and levity of the immense crowd collected at the execution this morning could be imagined by no man." To the Editor of The Times

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