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February 2023
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Portsmouth Birthplace
24th Annual Birthday Lecture
07:30 PM
John Pounds Church, High Street, Old Portsmouth
Professor Cathy Waters will present the 24th birthday lecture: Fairy Palaces and Wonderful Toys, machine dreams in Dickens's Household Words. Sponsored by Portsmouth Grammar School and Portsmouth Birthplace Branch of the Dickens Fellowship.
Date : 04 February
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Wreath laying and garlanding of Dickens statue
10:30 AM
Charles Dickens Birthplace Museum,393 Old Commercial Rd, Portsmouth PO1 4QL
Celebration of the birth of Charles Dickens, in partnership with the City Museums Service. 10:30 for 11:00 am: traditional placing of the wreath at the Charles Dickens Birthplace Museum, by our President, the Lord Mayor of Portsmouth. Followed at 12 noon by placing of garland around neck of Dickens statue in Guildhall Square.
Cleveland
Charles Dickens and Angela Burdett-Coutts
11:00 AM
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Anne Meissner will tell us about Dickens's great friend, Angela Burdett-Coutts. We celebrate Dickens's 211th birthday!
Wreath laying and garlanding of Dickens statue
12:00 PM
Charles Dickens Birthplace Museum,393 Old Commercial Rd, Portsmouth PO1 4QL
Celebration of the birth of Charles Dickens, in partnership with the City Museums Service. 10:30 for 11:00 am: traditional placing of the wreath at the Charles Dickens Birthplace Museum, by our President, the Lord Mayor of Portsmouth. Followed at 12 noon by placing of garland around neck of Dickens statue in Guildhall Square.
Portsmouth Birthplace
Birthday Lunch
12:30 PM
The Royal Maritime Club,Queen St, Portsmouth
To celebrate Charles Dickens's birthday. There will be a toast to his immortal memory, with a response on behalf of the city by the Lord Mayor of Portsmouth, Councillor Hugh Mason. Arrive 12:30 for a 13:00 start. Tickets cost £16 per person and must have been ordered in advance via our Chair, Tim Suffolk (023 9238 8870)
Central Fellowship
Celebrating Charles Dickens’s 211th Birthday.
07:30 PM
The Royal Over-Seas League Over-Seas House, Park Pl, London SW1A 1NN
We are pleased to announce that the Central Dickens Fellowship Birthday Dinner will take place on Tuesday
Date : 07 February
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Anthony Trollope Down Under: Travel Writing, Bushfires and Australian Ecology with Grace Moore
02:00 PM
Zoom
The three sessions will offer friends a chance to examine Victorian responses to the environment, with a particular emphasis on Australia. The first session will involve a presentation on my current research, which is on representations of bushfires and wildfires in 19th-century settler literature. The second two sessions will be discussions of Anthony Trollope’s Harry Heathcote of Gangoil (1874).
Date : 12 February
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Canterbury
Talk by Paul Graham
03:00 PM
St Dunstan's Church Hall, 80 London Rd, Canterbury CT2 8LS
The title of this talk is 'In the Footsteps of 'Milor Beeron': Echoes of the Byronic in Dickens's Work'. This is a Hybrid meeting, live-streamed from St Dunstan's Church Hall, 80 London Road, Canterbury, CT2 8LS. Please join us in the hall if you can, or request Zoom details from This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
North East England
“Mrs Gamp propoges a toast”
07:00 PM
Low Fell Library, Low Fell, Gateshead.
Chris McLoughlin leads the group discussing Chapters 47 to 50 inclusive of “Martin Chuzzlewit”
Date : 13 February
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2022-2023 Calendar
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Meeting Information for 2022-2023 season
Date : 18 February
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Central Fellowship
Dr Chris Louttit: Fred Barnard: Dickens’s Most Neglected Illustrator
06:30 PM
Date : 21 February
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'The Mystery of Edwin Drood' with Carl Wilson
01:00 PM
Zoom
Join the Santa Cruz Dickens Fellowship for a series of discussions about Dickens's last and most enigmatic work, the unfinished 'Mystery of Edwin Drood.' Considered by many lovers of detective fiction to be the ultimate mystery novel, since its author died without providing a solution, 'Drood' has challenged and intrigued the imaginations of generations of readers. Carl Wilson leads the sessions.
Date : 26 February
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Southwold
Branch meeting
12:30 PM
The Guide Centre, Cautley Road, Southwold, Suffolk IP18 6DD; except February = Birthday Lunch at The Randolph, Reydon.
Branch meeting
Vestfold County Pickwick Club, Norway
Vestfold County Pickwick Club, Norway
06:30 PM
This is a dummy event to ensure visibility of the branch page. Can be deleted once the events calendar is in place.
Date : 28 February
  • 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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