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A special honor for Dickens on the Strand

In honor of Dickens on the Strand's 50th anniversary, Britain's Parliament has sent its recognition and congratulations. Go here to read more! 

Happy 50th anniversary, Dickens on the Strand!

That's right, the annual Dickensian Christmas festival in Galveston, Texas, turns 50 this year! The Houston Chronicle reports that nine members of the Dickens family will be on hand for this year's festivities, taking place December 1-3. Go to the official Dickens on the Strand website to learn more. And here's wishing them a very happy anniversary!

Dickens doings

Here's a list of some upcoming Dickensian events of interest:

• Dr. Pete Orford will speak September 27 at the Dickens Museum about his new book, The Life of the Author: Charles Dickens. Go here to learn more. (Note: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.)
• Dickens Fellowship members are invited to a Zoom symposium on October 6 "to celebrate the contributions of Emeritus Professor Michael Slater to the Fellowship and to Dickens Studies." Go here to learn more.
• Dickens Day 2023, taking place October 7 at the University of London's Institute of English Studies, will concentrate on the theme of "Dickens and Time." Go here to learn more.

'The Signalman' reappears

On August 5, Londoners will be able to see a long-lost 1965 TV version of Dickens's "The Signalman" as part of a special program, "Missing Believed Wiped," at BFI Southbank. Click here to read more about the program, and click here for schedules and tickets!

Share your Dickens reading experiences!

Professor Michelle Allen-Emerson of the U.S. Naval Academy, as part of a research project on Dickens, is surveying readers on what their experiences with him have been like. Go here and follow the link to take the survey! 

Upcoming online talks

Tomorrow, April 27, Dr. Emily Dunbar of the Dickens Museum will give a talk on the museum's new Pickwick Papers exhibition at 10 a.m. Eastern. Go here to learn more and get a free ticket!

Also tomorrow, at 1 p.m. Eastern, the Dickens Fellowship will sponsor Lucinda Dickens Hawksley talking about her new book, Dickens and Travel. Go here for information.

Mr. Dickens comes to the museum

The Dickens Museum is hosting a virtual filmed version of Gerald Dickens's one-man show Mr. Dickens Is Coming!, at 2:30 p.m. Eastern on February 6. Go here to learn more and to buy tickets! 

New year, new reading (part 2)

Rachel, a.k.a. Sydney Wren, at All the (Dickensian) Year Round is starting a Dickens Chronological Reading Club, which aims to read through all the major works plus a few minor ones over the next two years. Go here to see the tentative reading schedule, and go here to see her initial post on the first work, Sketches by Boz. 

New year, new reading

Happy New Year! Jeremy Parrott of Dickens & Co., who's a Dickensblog reader and a member of our Facebook group, is starting 2022 right by beginning a new project, "Reading David Copperfield in Parts." Jeremy will be leading the readings on his YouTube channel, as he explains in this introduction to the project. He'll also be giving away a first edition of Bleak House, so you'll want to pay attention to find out how you can win!

The first video is below, and here's the link where you can subscribe to make sure you don't miss any upcoming ones.

 

Doings of the Dickens descendants

Mark Dickens will give a Zoom presentation on "Charles Dickens -- A Family Perspective" on Wednesday, December 1, at 2:30 p.m. Eastern. And Lucinda Dickens Hawksley will give an online talk on "Charles Dickens's Christmas Books" on Wednesday, December 8, at 1:30 p.m. Eastern. Follow the links to EventBrite for details and to purchase tickets!

Meanwhile, Gerald Dickens is back in America to present his one-man Christmas Carol! Go to his USA tour page to see if he's coming to a venue near you. If you're in the U.K., check his general tour page to see where he'll be performing once he gets back there.