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As today is check out our recipe for French onion soup over on our blog.

The perfect accompaniment to our 'A Tale of Two Cities' by

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Researching Edward Stirling, playwright/actor/manager for an upcoming blog. Stirling was an early adapter of - so early, in fact, Dickens frequently wasn't finished with his novels when Stirling's plays hit the stage. Here's an illo for 1840 "Old Curiosity Shop"

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Today marks the 150th anniversary of the death of Charles Dickens, English author who created some of the world's best known fictional characters and regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era.

📷Illustration: Ron Embleton for novel Martin Chuzzlewit.

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in 1865, was in a railroad crash near Staplehurst. Although he escaped injury, the accident affected him greatly for the rest of his life. He died five years to the day after this event.

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We would love to see your reviews on books you have read during only. Here is today's review from our staff ‘Oliver Twist’ by Charles Dickens ‘orphan asks where is love’

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Leaving this lovely picture here. If it stirs anything in your heart and soul, do the research. 🧐

Hint:

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Finished and posted my video on the touched off by a conflict between friend and U.S. actor, https://t.co/PC6Qh7x8ru

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"In the fair city of this vision, there were airy galleries from which the loves and graces looked upon him, gardens in which the fruits of life hung ripening, waters of Hope that sparkled in his sight. A moment, and it was gone."


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

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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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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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and were close friends. Dickens served as his editor and named a son after the best-selling author who is now primarily remembered for having composed the line "It was a dark and stormy night.."

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