Dickensblog

Looking for a good home

Dickens's personal copy of David Copperfield is going up for auction next month. It's expected to bring between £30,000 and £50,000.

Also going on sale: a silver claret jug given by Dickens to his friend William Henry Wills.

Congratulations to 'Great Expectations'!

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

Dickensian walks

The Telegraph suggests a few good ones.

'Page 1: Great Expectations'

Thanks to David Perdue for alerting me to this art project, which has me oddly fascinated; I keep going back to the site to stare at it, or at least at what one can see of it so far. It's available for pre-order.

Characters welcome

If you live in or near Rochester, England, here's a chance to get your Dickens on! Ashley Davis is organizing a Pageant of Novels to lead the parade at next month's Dickens Festival in Rochester, and he needs people to dress up as various characters. You also need to be able to do a short in-character interview. More information is here!

Found the stamps!

There are pictures and everything!

I think they forgot something

BBC News announced the creation of six new Oliver Twist stamps.

With no pictures of the stamps.

Harrumph.

Color me impressed

A reading group in Ulster is celebrating the Dickens bicentennial -- a reading group of 12 to 14 year olds! Good for them!

Family tree

Here's a fun article by a woman who found out that her great-great-great uncle knew Dickens -- and that Dickens once helped the man's kid out of a jam!

'Edwin Drood' now out on DVD

You can get it here!