by The Adaptation Stationmaster “‘Well, well!’ said my aunt. ‘I only ask. I don’t depreciate her. Poor little couple! And so you think you were formed for one another, and are to go through a party-supper-table kind of life, like two pretty pieces of confectionery, do you, Trot?'” ~David Copperfield Reading Our Mutual Friend, theContinue reading "Formed for One Another? Successful and Unsuccessful Dickensian Loves"| All the (Dickensian) Year Round
Wherein your co-hosts of The Dickens Chronological Reading Club 2022-24 (#DickensClub) wrap up Week 6 (Installment 6) of our twenty-fifth read, The Mystery of Edwin Drood; with a chapter summary and The beginning of our discussion of Final Thoughts & Theories… By the members of the #DickensClub, edited/compiled by Rach Friends, we began this journeyContinue reading "The Mystery of Edwin Drood: A Final Wrap-Up"| All the (Dickensian) Year Round
Wherein your co-hosts of The Dickens Chronological Reading Club 2022-24 (#DickensClub) wrap up Week 5 (Installment 5) of our twenty-fifth read, The Mystery of Edwin Drood; with a chapter summary and discussion wrap-up. By the members of the #DickensClub, edited/compiled by Rach “At about this time, a stranger appeared in Cloisterham…” Friends, we had aContinue reading "Dickens Club: Wrapping up Week Five of The Mystery of Edwin Drood"| All the (Dickensian) Year Round
Wherein your co-hosts of The Dickens Chronological Reading Club 2022-24 (#DickensClub) wrap up Week 4 (Installment 4) of our twenty-fifth read, The Mystery of Edwin Drood; with a chapter summary and discussion wrap-up. By the members of the #DickensClub, edited/compiled by Rach Friends, what a week! And is there a better chapter opening than “ChristmasContinue reading "Dickens Club: Wrapping up Week Four of The Mystery of Edwin Drood"| All the (Dickensian) Year Round
Wherein your co-hosts of The Dickens Chronological Reading Club 2022-24 (#DickensClub) wrap up Week 3 (Installment 3) of our twenty-fifth read, The Mystery of Edwin Drood; with a chapter summary and discussion wrap-up. By the members of the #DickensClub, edited/compiled by Rach Friends, as Chris writes, the plot thickens! What was Jasper up to duringContinue reading "Dickens Club: Wrapping up Week Three of The Mystery of Edwin Drood"| All the (Dickensian) Year Round
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
Wherein your co-hosts of The Dickens Chronological Reading Club 2022-24 (#DickensClub) wrap up Week 2 (Installment 2) of our twenty-fifth read, The Mystery of Edwin Drood; with a chapter summary and discussion wrap-up. By the members of the #DickensClub, edited/compiled by Rach Friends, things are heating up between Neville and Edwin, and Jasper seems toContinue reading "Dickens Club: Wrapping up Week Two of The Mystery of Edwin Drood"| All the (Dickensian) Year Round
Wherein your co-hosts of The Dickens Chronological Reading Club 2022-24 (#DickensClub) wrap up Week 1 (Installment 1) of our twenty-fifth read, The Mystery of Edwin Drood; with a chapter summary and discussion wrap-up. By the members of the #DickensClub, edited/compiled by Rach Friends, what a cracking opening! I don’t know about you, but I keepContinue reading "Dickens Club: Wrapping up Week One of The Mystery 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
Wherein your co-hosts of The Dickens Chronological Reading Club 2022-24 (#DickensClub) introduce our twenty-fourth read–and Dickens’s final completed novel–Our Mutual Friend. (Ban…| All the (Dickensian) Year Round