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December 2022
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Victorian Necromancies with Professor Renée Fox
02:00 PM
Zoom
"These three sessions will offer friends an opportunity to explore the Victorian gothic, one of my favorite genres of 19th-century literature. The first session will be a presentation on my forthcoming book, The Necromantics: Reanimation, the Historical Imagination, and Victorian British and Irish Literature, and the second two sessions will be discussions of Bram Stoker's novel Dracula (1897)."
Date : 04 December
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Cleveland
Holiday Meeting
11:00 AM
Beachwood Library Meeting Room A
Our holiday meeting with treats and an amateur theatrical based on Martin Chuzzlewit
Central Fellowship
Darkness and Light in A Christmas Carol
06:30 PM
Zoom online
Professor Malcolm Andrews will give a talk on 'Darkness and Light in A Christmas Carol'. This will be online, over Zoom. Please email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. if you
Date : 06 December
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Broadstairs
Christmas Social of the Broadstairs Branch of the Dickens Fellowship
07:00 PM
The Pavilion, Broadstairs
The Christmas Social of the Broadstairs Branch of the Dickens Fellowship. With seasonal refreshments and a performance by The Dickens Declaimers.
Date : 07 December
8
Sheffield
Public Reading of `A Christmas Carol`
07:00 PM
The Upper Chapel Sheffield
A public reading of `A Christmas Carol` . Free admission, retiring collection in aid of Sheffield HARC - Homeless and Rootless at Christmas.
Date : 08 December
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Central Fellowship
DF Central Christmas Lunch
01:00 PM
Union Jack Club, Sandell Street, London SE1 8UJ
The DF Christmas lunch will take place on Saturday 10th December at 13.00 at the Union Jack Club, Waterloo. Further
Date : 10 December
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North East England
Martin Chuzzlewit
07:00 PM
Low Fell Library, Low Fell, Gateshead.
Branch Member Jim Morrison leads on a discussion of Chapters 30 through to 42 from the novel. Branch Member Jim Morrison leads on a discussion of Chapters 30 through to 42 from the novel. Branch Member Jim Morrison leads on a discussion of Chapters 30 through to 42 from the novel. Branch Member Jim Morrison leads on a discussion of Chapters 30 through to 42 from the novel.
Date : 12 December
13
Portsmouth Birthplace
A Dickens Christmas Occasion
02:30 PM
St. Swithun's Church Hall, Waverley Road, Southsea,
A Dickens Christmas Occasion
Southwold
Branch meeting
02:30 PM
The Guide Centre, Cautley Road, Southwold, Suffolk IP18 6DD; except February = Birthday Lunch at The Randolph, Reydon.
Branch meeting
Date : 13 December
14
Broadstairs
Professor Jerry White " 'Where's That Turkey?' the London Christmas of 1869. Dickens's last?"
07:00 PM
Zoom
THE BROADSTAIRS CHRISTMAS ZOOM: Professor Jerry White, Historian and Author, " 'Where's That Turkey?' " the London Christmas of 1869. Dickens's last?"
Already registered: 2
Date : 14 December
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Regular Meeting
07:00 PM
Hale Auditorium, Church of the Redeemer, 5603 N Charles St, Baltimore, MD 21210
Regular meetings include discussions of the chosen novel for the year. For 2022, that novel is Our Mutual Friend. Chapters for each meeting outlined below. 
Visitors always welcome! November 18: Book Second, Chapter 9 to Book Third, Chapter 5
 December 16: Book Third, Chapter 6 to Book Fourth, Chapter 2
 January 27: Book Fourth, Chapter 3 thru postscript
Date : 16 December
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2022-2023 Calendar
12:00 PM
Meeting Information for 2022-2023 season
Date : 17 December
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Canterbury
'A Dickens Readings Duet'
03:00 PM
St Dunstan's Church Hall, 80 London Rd, Canterbury CT2 8LS
Professors Michael Slater and Malcolm Andrews combine forces to bring you some seasonal readings from Dickens, in their own inimitable style. Not to be missed! This is a Hybrid meeting, live-streamed from St Dunstan's Hall, 80 London Road, Canterbury, Kent, UK, CT2 8LS. Please join us in the hall in you can, or request Zoom details from This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Date : 20 December
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  • 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.
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