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October 2021
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Tokyo, Japan
2021 AGM + Conference
01:40 PM
zoom (online)
The annual general meeting and conference (2 short paper presentations and a lecture) of the Japan Branch. The programme is in Japanese. See the branch website for details: http://www.dickens.jp/agm/2021/agm-2021.pdf
Registration Closed
Date : 02 October
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Broadstairs
Broadstairs branch meeting
07:00 PM
Talk by Professor Carolyn Oulton, Humanities, Christ Church University Canterbury, and Director of the International Centre for Victorian Women Writers “I couldn’t bear to spend eight months with those people” Gladys Waterer and the Dickens connection
Registration Closed
Date : 06 October
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Baltimore
Dickens Book Discussion: Martin Chuzzlewit (Chapters 1 - 10)
07:00 PM
Church of the Redeemer
The Baltimore Dickens Society meets in the fall of each year to read and discuss one work of Charles Dickens. The 2021 season's novel is Martin Chuzzlewit.
Registration Closed
Date : 10 October
11
Canterbury
Talk by Pieter van de Merwe (tbc)
06:00 PM
Zoom
Registration Closed
North East England
"American Notes"
07:00 PM
Low Fell Library, Low Fell, Gateshead.
Janet Allison will lead on the reading of “American Notes” Volume 1, Chapters 5 through 8 and Volume 2 Chapter 1.
Registration Closed
Date : 11 October
12
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Aberdeen
Jean Briggs: “Mr Dickens is on the Case”
07:30 PM
Online, over Zoom
Registration Closed
Date : 13 October
14
Cleveland
Serious issues in American Notes
07:00 PM
zoom
Member Gretta Ryan presents those issues that engaged Dickens during his first trip to America: copyright, prisons, slavery, etc.
Registration Closed
Date : 14 October
15
Exploring the New Website
06:00 PM
Zoom online
A gentle ramble through the new website, looking at the resources available - information, events
Registration Closed
Date : 15 October
16
DROOD (By Dan Simmons)
11:00 AM
Riverside Main Library
Tim Clark moderates and presents DROOD (by Dan Simmons), Ch. 14-27. Hybrid event (live and Zoom).
Registration Closed
Pittsburgh
Oct. 16, '21: Jeffrey Larkin Wertz, Esquire No Stranger to the Bar: Charles Dickens of the Middle Temple
12:00 PM
Hilton Garden Inn University Place 3454 Forbes Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Registration Closed
Sheffield
Talk - Dickens and His Inner World
02:00 PM
Upper Chapel, Norfolk St, Sheffield
A talk from Fellowship member Steve Roberts
Registration Closed
Date : 16 October
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Melbourne
Dickens's Relationship with France with Patricia Wiltshire
07:30 PM
Registration Closed
Melbourne
Dickens's relationship with France
07:30 PM
Online
An exploration of Dickens's relationship with France through the many things he wrote about the country and its people in his writing and personal correspondence. People can be assured there will be plenty to hear from Dickens himself. Join virtually AEST https://zoom.us/j/93345429343?pwd=SDhnUll0RFhZS1lrK2RSbDkrc3ZwZz09 Meeting ID: 933 4542 9343; Passcode: 325258
Registration Closed
Date : 20 October
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Santa Cruz Pickwick Club presents 'Bleak House'
02:00 PM
Hybrid: Zoom and in-person at the Downtown Branch of the Santa Cruz Public Libraries
The Santa Cruz Pickwick Club is a community of local bookworms, students, and teachers who meet monthly to discuss a nineteenth-century novel. Spontaneous human combustion! Evil lawyers! Detectives! Family intrigue! These all come together in Charles Dickens’s masterwork, BLEAK HOUSE.
Registration Closed
Date : 24 October
25
North East England
"Oliver Twist" - At home
07:30 PM
Leeds Playhouse, Leeds
A filmed production of “Oliver Twist” from Leeds Playhouse, to enjoy at home, full details on Playhouse website. A two hour show with tickets from £15
Registration Closed
Date : 25 October
26
Central Fellowship
Dr Emily Bell – ‘Casting Shadows in Dickens’
06:00 PM
Online
Registration Closed
Date : 26 October
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North East England
Staplehurst & The Signalman
02:00 PM
The Word, Market Pl South Shields
Gerald Dickens is currently working on a book about the Staplehurst crash and will be speaking at The Word, (National Centre for the Written Word), Market Place, South Shield NE33, 1JF. After the talk, Gerald will perform the story of "The Signalman"
Date : 31 October
  • Fagin From Oliver Twist
  • Marchionness From The Old Curiosity Shop
  • Mr Bumble From Oliver Twist
  • Mr Micawber From David Copperfield
  • Mr Pecksniff From Martin Chuzzlewick
  • Mr Pickwick From The Pickwick Papers
  • Mr Weller Senior From The Pickwick Papers
  • Mrs Bardell From Pickwick Papers
  • Mrs Gamp From Martin Chuzzlewit
  • Sam Weller From The Pickwick Papers
  • The Fat Boy From Pickwick Papers
  • Trotty Veck From The Chimes
A delightful set of Dickens characters penned by Kyd (Joseph Clayton Clarke 1857-1937) have entertained readers for generations.
View summary outlines of Charles Dickens novels.
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