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Dickens Dinners in Los Angeles

Los Angeles restaurant Tam O'Shanter will hold its annual Dickens Dinners during Thanksgiving week. NBC Los Angeles has a nice article all about them, complete with photo.

Dickens in Myrtle Beach

The Dickens Christmas Show & Festival in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, beginning this Thursday, will offer "quite an eye-full of an approximation of Charles Dickens' London." The Charlotte Observer has the details.

Dickens's women and their work

This interview with Anne-Marie Slaughter in the Washington Post, about how "we utterly devalue the importance of caregiving roles in our society," has been getting a bit of buzz recently. And it got me thinking in Dickensian terms (as things often tend to do!). In the interview, Slaughter makes the following point:

New Gerald Dickens interview

Before performing his one-man Great Expectations at Guildford Book Festival, Gerald Dickens talked with Get Surrey about his favorite Dickens novel, the appeal of doing one-man shows, whether he'd like to write a novel himself, and more!