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What is a Smoking Bishop? In today's Instagram Live, Curator Philip Palmer and Research Associate Daria Rose Foner will discuss Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol," the Dickens-era cocktail, and more!
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2020-12-18

'It was a land that had forgotten the season of good will...'

Discover the world of Victorian Britain and the new Christmas traditions of Charles Dickens' era 🎁 🎄https://t.co/DT996RqtM3

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2020-12-03

in 1842, Dickens commissions W. P. Frith to paint Dolly Varden and Kate Nickleby; Frith did several different paintings of Dolly over the years. The painting of Kate went missing for nearly a century after Dickens's death, disappearing into a private collection.

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2020-11-16

Dickens in America

Learn about Charles Dickens' trips to America in 1842 and 1867/68.

Expanded and revised page:
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2020-11-07

Today is the birthday of Dickens's daughter Katey, nicknamed 'Lucifer Box' by her father. Find out more about Dickens's artist daughter, from : https://t.co/S5kdgi0XWA

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2020-10-29

Poe was the unfortunate subject of an 1848 doggerel rhyme by James Russell Lowell that pointed out the similarities between novel and the poem: “Here comes Poe with his Raven, like Barnaby Rudge, / Three fifths of him genius, two fifths sheer fudge.” Quite unfair!

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2020-10-18

Such was Dickens's love of the raven that he immortalized him as "Grip the Raven" in "Barnaby Rudge" (1841) who spouts encouraging and still-relevant sentiments such as "Never say die!" and "Keep up your spirits!"

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2020-10-18

Francis Jeffrey Dickens, or Frank, became "Chickenstalker," a nickname probably inspired by Mrs. Chickenstalker in Christmas story "The Chimes" (1844)

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2020-09-13

Charles Dickens died in 1870, leaving unfinished "The Mystery of Edwin Drood". In 1873 an unknown US publisher, T P James, claimed to have been visited by Dickens' ghost who dictated the ending.Believers in the subsequent ghost written book included Conan Doyle.

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2020-09-03

What was Dickens's opinion of drinking? 1842, Dickens defends that many of his characters drink: "They do not prosper in their fortunes, because of this taste (far from it), but in spite of it, through their better nature." Read the full letter: https://t.co/hSYUuzAsa4

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2020-09-01

Apparently, Mr Bounderby is making some unintentionally exotic move with his hat, passing reference to the "orientalist" fad of tambourine dances imperially snitched from the Middle East

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2020-07-02

The Leather Bottle Inn, The Street, Cobham, Gravesham, Kent Charles Dickens' Favourite Ale House in Cobham. pubhistory

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2020-06-16

On 150th anniversary of Charles Dickens, introduce someone to this master of story-telling with A Tale of Two Cities read by Anton Lesser.

Or read about Dickens' London by .

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2020-06-09

Interesting item on Dickens's original ms. of Oliver Twist in today's papers, pointing out that he toned down the violence in language as well as incident—but it's still so powerful (see Philip Allingham's long essay about the novel & its illustrators: https://t.co/Bobgw7iTgo)

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2020-06-03

With the 150th anniversary of Dickens's death coming next month, I've put Pictures from Italy to one side temporarily, and am enjoying reimmersing myself in The Mystery of Edwin Drood, especially 's awesome illustrations for

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2020-05-28

For 'A Tale told by a Bagman' by Hablot Knight Browne, (1815-1882) for Dickens' Pickwick Papers, 1874. Anyone else getting used to conversing with inanimate objects? Just wondering... Casgliad/Collection:

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2020-05-21

Too gloomy, but 1837, beloved sister-in-law, Mary Hogarth, "that spirit which directs my life" (& inspired a number of his characters) died in his arms https://t.co/DRQZYSmUSi

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2020-05-07

Today we're joining with Dickens's wishes, expressed in 1868 to Fanny Kemble, daughter of the actor Charles Kemble: "Accept my best wishes for your prosperity and happiness and for the welfare of those who are dearest to you." https://t.co/s0WikkSGHJ

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2020-04-20