Dickensblog

7 Quick Takes Friday

• Rochester's famous Dickens Festival is about to get under way!
• Actress Jessie Cave talks a little about playing Biddy in the bigscreen Great Expectations, in this brief interview.
• There's a new plaque marking the place where Dickens spent his last night in Portsmouth.
• Toledo, Ohio, has a new coffee shop named after Bleak House.
• In an article for the New Zealand Herald News, Colin Hogg recounts his journey "in Dickens's footsteps."
• There's an article here about how people who work with LinkedIn passwords are using A Tale of Two Cities for . . . something or other. Not being a techie, I can't understand a word of it, but maybe some of you can.
• A letter written by Dickens's first love, Maria Beadnell, to her daughter Ella, was recently sold on eBay to a former English teacher.

Congratulations to 'Great Expectations'!

The miniseries won three Bafta Craft awards: production design, visual effects, and photography and lighting.

'Great Expectations' gets seven BAFTA Craft Nominations

The BAFTA Craft Awards honor the behind-the-scenes aspects of films (directing, writing, and so forth). GE got the most nominations this year. Click here for more.

Dickensblog honored

We've been named one of the Top Victorian Blogs of 2011 by the folks at the English Lamp Post Company site. Many thanks to them!