By Rach During a recent long wait that Boze and I spent at the local Social Security Administration office to get my post-wedding name change official, I read the short 1880 book on Charles Dickens and Rochester by Robert Langton. The book is available free on Google Books & attached as a PDF below: However,Continue reading "Picturing the Cloisterham of Edwin Drood…"| All the (Dickensian) Year Round
* * * SPOILER ALERT * * * “. . . it must rank as Dickens’s strangest achievement.” (174) Ackroyd once again sets the stage for us in terms of Dickens’s activities and mindset leading up to and during the writing of his novel. “The only one of Dickens’s novels which he did not finishContinue reading "Supplement to The Mystery of Edwin Drood"| All the (Dickensian) Year Round
Wherein your co-hosts of The Dickens Chronological Reading Club 2022-24 introduce our twenty-fifth and final read together: The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Dickens’s last, unfinished novel. The g…| All the (Dickensian) Year Round
*** SPOILER ALERT *** Many people would now in fact regard it as the greatest of his works . . . Dickens was writing ahead of his time. (169) It is the strangest of Dickens’s novels, but in m…| All the (Dickensian) Year Round