- Twist headed for Broadway? Could be . . .
- Singer/songwriter Morrissey likes Dickens "because he was a terribly gloomy character, embittered, and quite depressed." Um, okay.
- Dickens makes another best-of list. This time it's Dick Datchery landing on a "Best Disguises" list -- even though we don't know for certain that he was wearing a disguise!
- Apparently Dickens was quite sarcastic about the pre-Raphaelites -- and a little paranoid (as was already hinted in Pictures from Italy) about Catholicism. Interesting, coming from the author of Barnaby Rudge.
- Over the Christmas holidays, you can get a good deal on a stay at a London hotel that was once Dickens's dwelling.
- Here's another in our ongoing list of teachers who made Dickens exciting. A Dickensblog Order of Merit goes to the unnamed teacher whose "spirited and dramatic reading of 'Oliver Twist'" changed a dyslexic student's life.
- And while we're at it, how about another one, for the teacher who "said that anyone who voluntarily read Charles Dickens in the eighth grade was going to one day be a college professor"? (Too bad I didn't get to that point till the ninth grade!)
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Drat! I read Copperfield, Pickwick and A Tale of Two Cities in the summer between 8th and 9th grades and the rest during 9th grade. I could have been a college professor if I had only gotten started a few months earlier!
Posted by: David | September 25, 2010 at 08:05 AM
I love these! I especially love the one about the "spirited and dramatic reading of 'Oliver Twist.' :)
Posted by: Selenia | September 25, 2010 at 11:52 AM
Aw, I didn't much care for Dickens in 8th grade. :( Sorry Boz! But I was in love by 10th grade...hopefully that counts!
Posted by: Nina | September 25, 2010 at 07:38 PM
It most certainly counts! :-)
Posted by: Gina | September 25, 2010 at 10:47 PM
Oh, I overlooked #4 on this list, and I bring it up because I forgot to mention to you that, interestingly, the BBC recently did a miniseries on a few select pre-Raphaelites and Dickens makes an appearance. Here's the link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desperate_Romantics
AND he's played by the actor who is Thomas Brown (one of my favorite characters) on Lark Rise to Candleford (one of my favorite shows)! The actor's name?
Mark HEAP. Mwahaha!
Posted by: Nina | September 26, 2010 at 05:07 PM
I can't remember when I first read Carol and Two Cities. Those were the only ones I read until after college.
Posted by: Christy | September 27, 2010 at 12:57 PM