#Dickens on stage at Boston's Tremont Temple, in December 1867. Would like to have been there when he "walked briskly onto the platform in his evening tail-coat with its lapels faced in satin," and started his readings! https://victorianweb.org/authors/dickens/gallery/110.html

So, do audio books count as reading?

(Yes - that was a rhetoric question.)

As such, my daughter is reading 'A Christmas Carol' because I'm reading it to her at bedtime. And then we sing 'The Twelve Days of Christmas' after.

She's 15. And we love it.

(Oh - and it also happens to be one of her study books for GCSE English.)

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Charles Dickens buscaba salvar su economía… y acabó dando forma a la Navidad moderna. 🎄
Una historia de crisis, creatividad y crítica social detrás de A Christmas Carol.

La historia completa en el blog 👉 Mundo Pandereta.

https://mundopandereta.blogspot.com/2022/12/a-christmas-carol-cuento-de-navidad-lo.html

#Navidad #Historia #Dickens #Literatura #Curiosidades

Gerade gelesen, was #Dickens seiner Frau antat.
Joah. Den lesen wir dann also auch nicht mehr 😒😡🤢

Today in Labor History December 2, 1867: British author Charles Dickens gave his first public reading in the United States at Tremont Temple in Boston. He described his impressions of the U.S. in a travelogue, “American Notes for General Circulation.” In Notes, he condemned slavery and correlated the emancipation of the poor in England with the abolition of slavery abroad. Despite his abolitionist sentiments, some modern commentators have criticized him for not condemning Britain’s harsh crackdown during the 1860s Morant Bay rebellion in Jamaica. During his American visit, he also spent a month in New York, giving lectures, and arguing for international copyright laws and against the pirating of his work in America. The press ridiculed him, saying he should be grateful for his popularity here.

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Here’s a thoroughly entertaining historical and literary analysis of “The Muppet Christmas Carol” by a London-based tour guide, #JennyDraper

https://youtu.be/opXFR6ab214?si=SGBJjU-SZfcvCU9E

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When someone describes a first world problem, I like to reply "Dreadful, that's like something out of Dickens" shake my head & walk off ...

I would have made a great Disney villain.

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Dickens?

When someone describes a first world problem, I like to reply “Dreadful, that’s like something out of Dickens” shake my head & walk off …

I would have made a great Disney villain.

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Oliver! [1963]
1 print (poster) : lithograph, color ; 56 x 36 cm. | Poster for original Broadway production of "Oliver!" at the Imperial Theatre, showing drawing of a young boy's face.

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I am more and more coming to the conclusion that we are collectively heading towards a very unequal society which might easily (or: will certainly?) slip into a future that re-lives a #Dickens'ian dystopia where nobody will have any resources to support themselves on their own and everyone will struggle against sliding into grinding poverty, while arbitrary groups will constantly be turned against each other.

@CableSt I'd think with the season and all, the esteemed, honest and precise, President might reasonably be visited by three ghosts, of Past, Present, and Future.
One of them might be Carol.

#Dickens #Xmas #Carol

#Kleinigkeiten machen die #Summe des Lebens aus.
(Charles #Dickens)
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@msbellows Weird... I first heard of chairs with drawers just this week, while reading #Dickens Bleak House. "Mr Smallweed with his feet in the drawer of his chair as if it were a paper footbath"

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Het Dickens Festijn Deventer is vanaf dit jaar niet meer gratis, meldt de organisator. Het jaarlijkse evenement, waarvoor het Bergkwartier in het centrum wordt omgebouwd tot negentiende-eeuwse Engelse stad, trekt doorgaans meer dan 100.000 bezoekers.

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Close together but yet so far apart… #books #dickens

"Re-Reading the Age of Innovation", edited by Louisa Kane, collects 14 essays on the subject of newness: new inventions, new forms in #VictorianLiterature & #Modernism - 1830–1950
Authors discussed incl #Dickens #Conrad #Hardy #Woolf #CharlotteMew #ElíasMar & #WalterFrancesWhite

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