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Charles Dickens was born in 1812 in Portsmouth.

Did you know that he hated sitting for photographs and portraits? Accounts from people who knew him can’t even agree on the colour of his eyes.

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2020-02-07

And here's another find. This one features Victorian comedian as Toby Veck in an 1845 production of "The Chimes" at the Adelphi. Mr. and Mrs. Keeley were the first big name stars Walter Watts signed to play at the Marylebone.

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2020-02-07

Another find while researching Victorian Christmas Pantomimes. This is an adaptation of "A Christmas Carol" at the in 1844.

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2020-02-05

Here is a better inadvertent find - beloved husband and wife comedy team, the Keeleys, starring in an adaptation of Dickens' Christmas story "The Battle of Life" at the in 1846. Mowatt later worked with the Keeleys at the Marylebone and the Olympic.

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2020-02-05

Was portrayal of in his writings a reflection of 19thC attitudes to ageing or was he gerontophobic? I am writing on this subject.

Views welcome





& anyone with a view.
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2020-02-04

in 1838, Dickens set off from London by coach to visit the Yorkshire schools. This research trip was the basis for Nicholas Nickleby, which was serialised from March 1838: https://t.co/ecR5Sjze4r

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2020-01-30


Desidero che tu sappia

che sei stato l'ultimo

sogno della mia anima

-Charles Dickens-






Blak and White L.Alfremov

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2020-01-28

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

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2020-01-27

Dickensian characters. I picked these up a few days ago, a bit weathered but I think that gives them more character

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2020-01-24

We were greatly overcome at parting; and if ever, in my life, I have had a void made in my heart, I had one made that day.

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2020-01-21

Fagin from Oliver Twist, by Joseph Clayton Clarke art

Fagin is a self-confessed miser who, despite the wealth he has acquired, does very little to improve the squalid lives of the children he guards, or his own.

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2020-01-15

The Artful Dodger from Oliver Twist, by Joseph Clayton Clarke charlesdickens

Jack Dawkins, better known as the Artful Dodger, is a pickpocket, so called for his skill and cunning in that occupation

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2020-01-15

Bill Sikes from Oliver Twist, by Joseph Clayton Clarke, 1889 art charlesdickens

Sikes is a malicious criminal in Fagin's gang, and a vicious robber and murderer. Throughout much of the novel Sikes is shadowed by his “bull-terrier” dog Bull's-eye.

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2020-01-15

Mr Pickwick from The Pickwick Papers, by Joseph Clayton Clarke charlesdickens

Pickwick is a retired successful businessman and is the Founder and Chairman of the Pickwick Club

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2020-01-15

Uriah Heep from David Copperfield, by Joseph Clayton Clarke, 1889 art

Heep is one of the main antagonists of the novel. His character is notable for his cloying humility, obsequiousness, and insincerity, making frequent references to his own "'umbleness".

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2020-01-15

Mr Jingle from The Pickwick Papers, by Joseph Clayton Clarke, 1889 CharlesDickens

From "Character Sketches from Charles Dickens, Pourtrayed by Kyd", or "The Characters of Charles Dickens Pourtrayed in a Series of Original Water Colour Sketches by Kyd."

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2020-01-15