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'Dickensian' on PBS

At long last, "Dickensian" has made it to our shores. Shame on me for not knowing about this! I can't believe I missed it, after watching for it for so long. Thanks to Linda Perry for giving me the tip that it's already started airing on some stations (and fortunately, the early episodes are rerunning here tonight so I can get everything recorded). Check your local listings to find out when it airs in your area!

Clothes make the man

The only surviving clothing known to have been worn by Charles Dickens, a suit that he wore when he was introduced to the Prince of Wales, is going on permanent display at the Dickens Museum. The Belfast Telegraph has a video!

New photo of Dan Stevens as Charles Dickens

Entertainment Weekly has the first photo of Dan Stevens as Charles Dickens in The Man Who Invented Christmas. Thanks to Rachel McMillan for the tip!

Congratulations to Charles Dickens Page!

According to The Buzfuz e-newsletter, our friend David Perdue is celebrating the 20th anniversary of his website, the invaluable Charles Dickens Page. Happy anniversary, David, and thanks for all you do for us Dickensians!

'To Begin With' returns to Minneapolis

The play inspired by Dickens's The Life of Our Lord, and starring his descendant Gerald Charles Dickens, is coming back to the city where it premiered two years ago. To Begin With will run at the Historic Wesley Center from March 28 through April 15. For more information, go here; to buy tickets, go here. 

Speaking of Gerald Dickens, you can read his thoughts on performing in this and other works by and about his famous ancestor at his blog!

Coutts and Dickens

The Coutts Foundation website has a new article up about the woman who inspired its founding, Angela Burdett-Coutts, and the work she did alongside Charles Dickens to fight poverty.

The collective in 'A Tale of Two Cities'

In Cherwell, Ethan Croft explains Dickens's use of the collective in A Tale of Two Cities and why it makes the story so effective: "It is hard to identify one single protagonist in A Tale of Two Cities, but the antagonist is in plain sight—division itself. The tragic sacrifice at the novel’s climax is the price we pay for being zealous and uncompromising." Read more here.