
Charles Dickens audiobooks available at BBC Audio Zone
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Dickens married the former Catherine Hogarth in 1836. They had 10 children together
before separating in 1858. Catherine died in 1879.
Dickens met "Nellie" Ternan in 1857 when she was hired as an actress in one of
his amateur plays. They were frequent companions for the rest of his life.
Dickens was born here February 7, 1812. The house has been restored and furnished
with period pieces.
An annual Dickens Festival is held to celebrate the town's connection with the
writer.
Dickens and Catherine honeymooned here in 1836. The forge here was Dickens inspiration
for the setting of the opening chapters of Great Expectations.
As a child Dickens would walk with his father by Gad's Hill Place, a large impressive
mansion outside Rochester. His father told him that with perseverance and
hard work he could live in such a house.
Thirty-six years later, in 1856, Dickens bought it.
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- Dickens Filmography
- Films made from Dickens' novels: Internet Movie Database
- Riverside Dickens Festival
- February 1-3, 2008
- Intersections:
In the Footsteps of Charles Dickens - John Irving on Lessons in
Storytelling from the Victorian Master
- Greg Oliver Bodine - This one-act,
one-hour, solo stage adaptation of A Christmas Carol is enacted
by Dickens himself, and is based on a condensed version of the novel
that he used while on the second of his historic reading tours of the
United States.
- A Dickens of a Tour: Charles Dickens in Washington - Natalie Zanin (Flyer)
- A Christmas Carol - A Victorian Christmas Celebration - from Jacqueline Goldfinger
- Special to The Charles Dickens Page:
Articles and reviews by Professor Robert Giddings - School of Media Arts and Communications at Bournemouth University:
- Dickens: From Page to
Screen by Robert Giddings - Originally published in Canadian
Notes & Queries
- Great Expectations
(1999): Dramatized by Tony Marchant - Review by Robert Giddings
- Oliver Twist (1999)
- David Copperfield (1999): Reviews by Robert Giddings
- Nicholas Nickleby (2001)
- Dramatized by Martyn Edward Hesford - Review by Robert Giddings
- Dickens and the Classic
Serial - by Robert Giddings
- Micawber (2001) - Review
by Robert Giddings
- The
Mystery of Ackroyd and Callow by Robert Giddings:
'The Mystery of Charles Dickens', by Peter Ackroyd, BBC Radio 4,
BBC-4 Television, starring Simon Callow, together with a few words
about 'Dickens', BBC-2's three part dramatized documentary television
series written and presented by Peter Ackroyd.
- 'Scrooge
Blues' and Not So Tiny Tim' By Nicholas McInerny BBC Radio Four,
December 2002 - Review by Robert Giddings
- Nicholas Nickleby
(2002) - Film written and directed by Douglas McGrath - Review by
Robert Giddings
- Dickens and the Great Unmentionable
- A Paper delivered by Professor Robert Giddings, of Bournemouth
University at Birkbeck College, University of London, on 20th March
2004, as a contribution to a conference on Dickens and Sex, held
at the University of London Institute of English Studies.
- Pickwick Papers
- BBC Radio Four Classic Serial, December 2004 (336k pdf file)
- Soft Soaping Dickens: Andrew
Davies, BBC-1 and 'Bleak House' - Giddings examines the popular
belief that were Dickens alive today he would be writing soap operas
for television
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- Project Gutenberg - Dickens'
works online
- Bibliomanio - More Dickens'
works online
- David Copperfield
is available in html on George Valsanis' beautifully done site
- The
Life of Charles Dickens - By John
Forster (1872-74)
- World
Wide School - Dickens major and minor works online
- Classic
Bookshelf's Dickens Page - A great way to read Dickens online, check
this out!
- Marley's
Ghost by Mark Osmun - San Francisco Chronicle review of Mark's new
book, a prequel to A Christmas Carol, telling Marley's story
- Classic
Reader - Charles Dickens
- Dickens'
Speeches - World Wide School
- The English Letters
Collection: The Letters of Charles Dickens - from InteLex
- Discovering Dickens
- A Community Reading Project: Stanford University, serialization
of Dickens' Great Expectations, more (12/02)
- The University of Adelaide Australia - Dickens
E-Books online
- Scrooge & Cratchit:
An original short story conceived as a sequel to A Christmas Carol
by Matt McHugh
- Free E-text - The Free
Library:Dickens
- Dickens-Literature.com
- Dickens works, indexed and searchable: also contains a biography,
related articles, and quotes
- Dickens
at LiteratureClassics.com - Features essays, electronic texts, links
and resources
- A Christmas Carol in Latin:
phaselus.org.uk - A Website helping to preserve the Latin language
- The Podcasts of Charles
Dickens - Have Dickens read to you! A great site by Nathaniel Tapley
- Boz in Egypt - Dickens' visit to southern Illinois in 1842 is explored in this article by Herbert Channick
- Dickens and more at Real Reads - retold classics aimed at children ages 8–12.
- Dickens at Planet eBook - Free classic literature to download and share
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Note concerning links to external sites:
In linking to other web sources I have tried to include only sites of a
scholarly or informational nature which further the reader's understanding
and enjoyment of Dickens' life and works. Sites of a commercial nature,
while of interest to many, have been excluded.
If you have a Dickens resource that you would like to see linked here, or
if you notice that any of the links above are no longer available let
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