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"... and I shall never cease, I hope, until I die, to advocate their being made as happy and as wise as the circumstances of their condition in its utmost improvement, will admit of their becoming ... I try to deserve their attention" [2/3]

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2020-04-03

Enjoying 'Charles Dickens: A Life' by Claire Tomalin as Book of the Week? 📚Me too, I love it. You may also like my new version of Great Expectations which includes this fun Dickens timeline. It's out on Thursday. 👀 https://t.co/sljaz0AqVl

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2020-03-31

Congratulations on the launch of Great Expectations, Jack! Here's one of Rainer's drawings of Charles Dickens to help you celebrate. We've ordered our copy!💙

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2020-03-25

Explore some of the Illustrators that worked with to visualise his stories & characters in our latest blog by Co-Curator 'Childhood in Dickensian London' our online exhibition (onsite closed until further notice)
https://t.co/Q2hQIs3Suf

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2020-03-24

It’s Mother’s Day in the UK today. Dickens had a complicated relationship with his mother, Elizabeth Dickens. In 1839 he rented his parents a cottage in Devon, away from London, and they felt exiled, writing him “hateful, sneering letters".

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2020-03-22

The 1845 production of "Cricket on the Hearth" was also the debut of the Keely's daughter Mary.

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2020-03-20

Seen with flat-bottomed Venetian rowing boats (gondola) mid 1800 dress & attire. The men are wearing wigs. From 1857 (loose plate) "Mr. Sparkler under a Reverse of Circumstances" by Phiz (Hablot K. Browne) from the Charles Dickens's book titled Little Dorrit.

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2020-03-20

Here is little Tina Trueheart waiting to go onstage for the debut in the role of the baby in "Cricket on the Hearth" in the frontispiece for Mowatt's "Mimic Life" (1854) in which her story, "The Prompter's Daughter," appears.

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2020-03-19

The production of "Cricket on the Hearth" described in the story "The Prompter's Daughter" by was probably based on this Dec. 1845 production at the (see the little baby in the back?)

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2020-03-19

The onsite exhibition of Childhood in Dickensian London will be closed until further notice.
Good news: you can still visit the exhibition online!
Enjoy galleries, blogs & videos while self-isolating: https://t.co/7snv8xb1BP

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2020-03-17

On this day in 1967 Jimi Hendrix released “Purple Haze”in the UK. "Purple haze" appears in Charles Dickens 1861 book “Great Expectations”

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2020-03-17

"Life is made of so many partings welded together."
Charles Dickens

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2020-03-11

“Meines Vaters Name lautet Pirrip...”

by hps

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2020-03-06

The pain of parting ..
.. is nothing to the joy of meeting again.

Charles Dickens

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2020-02-29

The list of authors and titles Vincent read and re-read, most notably Dickens, is impressive. if I had to choose one self-portrait that best represents Vincent's passion for reading and the years of accumulated knowledge, here it is...

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2020-02-28