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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 Lost Portrait

This post has been contributed by Dr. Katie Bell. Read her previous posts here and here. In describing Charles Dickens’s eyes, Frederic George Kitton discovered so many diverse opinions that he concluded Dickens’s eyes must have had “chameleon-like qualities.”[1]  Kitton explains that some accounts told...

Finding Bleak House in Martin Chuzzlewit

This post has been contributed by Matthew Redmond. As many of us know too well, The Modern Library prefaces every Dickens novel with a three-page headnote titled “Charles Dickens,” which strives to outline certain crucial moments of his life and career. Perhaps the biggest turning...
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The purpose of the Dickens Society is to conduct, further, and support research, publication, instruction, and general interest in the life, times, and literature of Charles John Huffam Dickens (1812-1870).