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Revolutionary Time - diving into print collection for my first class next week
Core Course bookended by the French Revolution & A Tale of Two Cities
✴️serial revolutions
✴️mediations
✴️memorials
✴️narratives

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2022-09-27

Thomas McLean never gave his version of the Phénakisticope his own name.

The artist for most of his discs was popular London caricaturist Robert Seymour who was also the illustrator for Dickens's Pickwick Papers. -30- https://t.co/rScD2j2UvH

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2022-09-26

Allegedly, some believed the text was genuinely Dickens's, written before his death then stolen posthumously & falsely presented as (literally) ghost-written. Others supposedly said it was narrated to James by the devil, who was seen flying in & out of his chimney each night 2/2

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2022-06-09

It took the bookstore a bit to find out how to order it, but I'm VERY excited to be able to teach and 's Oliver Vol 1 in my Young Adult Lit class this Fall!

I'm going to start with an excerpt from Dickens's Oliver Twist (Victorian lit for young folks), (1/2)

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2022-05-06

"In the days when Dickens's work was coming out in serial, people talked about it as if real life were itself the interlude between one issue of 'Pickwick' and another."
~G.K. Chesterton, Charles Dickens, The Last of the Great Men


🖼️ Phiz

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2022-03-07

For a festive special, Charles Dickens's 3xgreat granddaughter Lucinda Hawksley talks about his famous Christmas stories. 

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2021-12-25

Dickens's timeless classic is now available in this beautiful HarperCollins Children’s Classics edition

This audio download is a heritage-rich collection showcasing some of the best-loved characters in children’s literature.

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2021-11-03

RT : Take your cue from Sairey Gamp ("the greatest of all Dickens's great creations," according to the back of this cigarette csrd). You definitely need to carry your umbrella at all times this May! https://t.co/ctXmyt3Odx

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2021-05-24

Similar to later female characters such as Mrs. Badger and Mrs. Jellyby (Bleak House), Mrs. Leo Hunter dominates her (adoring) husband and carries out multiple public activities.

The text satirizes her belief in her own importance - but does the same to Pickwick!

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2021-05-23

Take your cue from Sairey Gamp ("the greatest of all Dickens's great creations," according to the back of this cigarette csrd). You definitely need to carry your umbrella at all times this May! https://t.co/4P3nRxJXIo

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2021-05-18

Her grief at sudden death in 1870 was extreme and long-lasting, with Mamie steadily refusing to ever again hear public readings of her father's works

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2021-03-21

Good afternoon Twitter and welcome to Tuesday's history quiz (and shameless book promo)!
Georgina Weldon was a self-proclaimed medium. What ISN'T true though? She...
A. lived in Dickens's old house?
B. managed a choir of orphans?
C. went to prison?
D. advocated eating meat daily?

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2021-03-09

Happy birthday to ! In our A Boy Called Dickens, the amazing brings Dickens's difficult time in the blacking factory to life for young readers. https://t.co/6XV6KhuKY0

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2021-02-08

Scenes of drinking in Charles fiction often provide clues as to the moral integrity of characters.

In particular, how individuals use tea-time can be extremely revealing 🫖

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2021-01-31

Dickens's Ghost of Christmas Present, by John Leech, 1843, a version of Father Christmas & dressed in green: https://t.co/O7kaSZf4j3

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2020-12-23

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

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