Tag: London


Dickens Possibly Influenced “Sweeney Todd”


By Herb Moskovitz. Reprinted with kind permission of the author and David Perdue’s The Charles Dickens Page. In Philadelphia there is a wonderful walk-through exhibit of A Christmas Carol in Macy’s on Market Street. There are three-dimensional tableaus of scenes from the classic story and in the...

The Magic of Dickens’s Southwark


This post has been contributed by Amanda Harvey Purse. When we think of ‘Dickens’s London’, we may not instantly think of the borough of Southwark. This district however, packed a powerful punch for him, so much so that it played a vital role in Charles’s...

Call for Papers: The 25th Annual Dickens Society Symposium


OUR DICKENS: DICKENS AND HIS PUBLICS 17th-19th July 2020, Bloomsbury, London   In 2020, the 150-year anniversary of Dickens’s death, the annual Dickens Society Symposium will take place in Bloomsbury, Dickens’s home for periods of time and where he produced some of his most memorable...