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Lucinda Hawksley lectures on 'Dickens and Travel'

Sign up at this link to hear her speaking at 5:30 Eastern this evening at Skidmore College!

Household words

When Typepad was down for a significant amount of time a few days ago, I started looking into what's going on with the platform. What I found was not reassuring. I believe it may be time to think about migrating Dickensblog to a different platform. As someone who knows a lot more about English literature than about how the Internet works, I find this prospect daunting, but not as daunting as the possibility of losing some 16 years' worth of posts. I'm seeking out advice (and would welcome tips from any of you with experience in this area!) and will keep you posted. And those of you on Facebook are welcome to join the Dickensblog group there, where you can always find me if this blog is down!

Inspired by 'Night Walks'

We've seen fashion inspired by Miss Havisham before, but here's a new one: fashion inspired by Dickens's famously atmospheric essay "Night Walks." The Guardian and MSN have articles and photos showing the new Alexander McQueen collection.

A conversation with the author of 'Fagin the Thief'

Allison Epstein, author of the new Oliver Twist spinoff Fagin the Thief, will be interviewed by longtime friend of this blog Rachel McMillan in a Zoom event that's free to the public. Go here to register for the event, which will take place this Wednesday, March 5, at 7:00 p.m. Eastern. 

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'Oliver!' cast album released

The cast album of the new Cameron Mackintosh production of Oliver! is now available digitally. (The page I just linked to says it's also available on CD, but I don't actually see any CDs for sale yet -- maybe that's coming soon.) Musical Theater Review has a review of the album here.