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Canterbury
Talk by Dr Pete Orford
06:00 PM
Zoom
Dr Peter Orford, who is currently editing 'Pictures from Italy for OUP, will speak on 'Dickens's Ventriloquism: trying to capture the Italian voice in 'Pictures from Italy''.
Registration Closed
North East England
Annual General Meeting & Martin Chuzzlewit
07:00 PM
Low Fell Library, Low Fell, Gateshead.
We are holding our AGM, followed by planning our 2022 reading of "Martin Chuzzlewit"
Registration Closed
Date : 10 January
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Portsmouth Birthplace
Presentation/Discussion of Barnaby Rudge
02:30 PM
St. Swithun's Church Hall, Waverley Road, Southsea,
Presentations/Discussion of Barnaby Rudge by Prof. Tony Pointon 'From second to fifth, Great Scott! How was that?'
Registration Closed
Date : 11 January
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Greater Riverside Area
Dickens and the Art of National Gallery of Victoria
04:00 PM
Greater Riverside Area Dickens Fellowship (GRAD)
The delightful Anita Jawary of the Melbourne, Australia Fellowship will be guest presenting for us a second time. Nita, of the National Gallery of Victoria, offers "Dickens and Art at the NGV" on January 12th, 4 pm PST, 7 pm EST (12:00 am January 13 GST, 11:00 am January 13 AEST).
Registration Closed
Broadstairs
New Year’s Social,
07:00 PM
The Pavilion in Broadstairs
New Year’s Social, with Dickens Quiz. Subscriptions due.
Registration Closed
Date : 12 January
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Cleveland
Poe and Dickens
07:00 PM
zoom
Peggy Smith talks about a new biography of Edgar Allan Poe and his relationship with Dickens in the United States.
Registration Closed
Date : 13 January
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Sheffield
Introduction to 'Little Dorrit'
02:00 PM
The Upper Chapel Sheffield
Sheffield member Colleen Martell introduces our book of study for 2022, 'Little Dorrit'. There will be a short reading from the opening chapter, and time for comment and discussion. A brief business section will also take place.
Registration Closed
Date : 14 January
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Aberdeen
Michael Steele: “The Camera Never Lies”
07:30 PM
Online, over Zoom
Already registered: 5
Date : 19 January
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Santa Cruz Pickwick Club presents 'Bleak House'
02:00 PM
Hybrid: Zoom and in-person at the Downtown Branch of the Santa Cruz Public Libraries
The Santa Cruz Pickwick Club is a community of local bookworms, students, and teachers who meet monthly to discuss a nineteenth-century novel. Spontaneous human combustion! Evil lawyers! Detectives! Family intrigue! These all come together in Charles Dickens’s masterwork, BLEAK HOUSE.
Already registered: 2
Date : 23 January
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Southwold
January Branch Meeting
02:30 PM
The Guide Centre, Cautley Road, Southwold, Suffolk
Talk on An Aspect of Dickens; plus readings from David Copperfield.
Southwold
January Branch Meeting
02:30 PM
The Guide Centre, Cautley Road, Southwold, Suffolk
Talk on An Aspect of Dickens; plus readings from David Copperfield.
Prof. Robert Douglas-Fairhurst – 1851: The Turning Point
06:30 PM
Zoom online
Robert will talk briefly about his book and why he sees 1851 as the key year in Dickens’s creative life,
Already registered: 70
Date : 25 January
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  • Fagin From Oliver Twist
  • Marchionness From The Old Curiosity Shop
  • Mr Bumble From Oliver Twist
  • Mr Micawber From David Copperfield
  • Mr Pecksniff From Martin Chuzzlewick
  • Mr Pickwick From The Pickwick Papers
  • Mr Weller Senior From The Pickwick Papers
  • Mrs Bardell From Pickwick Papers
  • Mrs Gamp From Martin Chuzzlewit
  • Sam Weller From The Pickwick Papers
  • The Fat Boy From Pickwick Papers
  • Trotty Veck From The Chimes
A delightful set of Dickens characters penned by Kyd (Joseph Clayton Clarke 1857-1937) have entertained readers for generations.
View summary outlines of Charles Dickens novels.
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