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January 2023
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Cleveland
Dickens in Italy
11:00 AM
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Charla Coatoam will present her talk on the Dickens family in Genoa, Italy
Date : 03 January
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Anthony Trollope Down Under: Travel Writing, Bushfires and Australian Ecology with Grace Moore
02:00 PM
Zoom
The three sessions will offer friends a chance to examine Victorian responses to the environment, with a particular emphasis on Australia. The first session will involve a presentation on my current research, which is on representations of bushfires and wildfires in 19th-century settler literature. The second two sessions will be discussions of Anthony Trollope’s Harry Heathcote of Gangoil (1874).
Date : 08 January
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Canterbury
Talk by Hugh Cunningham
03:00 PM
St Dunstan's Church Hall, 80 London Rd, Canterbury CT2 8LS
The title of this talk is 'What Happened to Childhood in Dickens's Lifetime and After it?' This is a Hybrid meeting, live-streamed from St Dunstan's Church Hall, 80 London Road, Canterbury, CT2 8LS. Please join us in the hall if you can, or request Zoom details from This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
North East England
“Pecksniff – The Shield of Virtue”
07:00 PM
Low Fell Library, Low Fell, Gateshead.
Carolyn Walker leads the group discussing Chapters 43 to 46 inclusive of “Martin Chuzzlewit”
Date : 09 January
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Portsmouth Birthplace
Hard Times- our book for 2023
02:30 PM
St. Swithun's Church Hall, Waverley Road, Southsea,
Professor Tony Pointon gives the first presentation of Hard Times, our chosen book for 2023, hopefully leaidng to a lively discussion of the themes explored by Charles Dickens, and our views of the plot and characters.
Portsmouth Birthplace
Hard Times Intro & Discussion
02:30 PM
St. Swithun's Church Hall, Waverley Road, Southsea,
Presentation and discussion of our 2023 book of the year: Hard Times. Professor Tony Pointon will be giving an introduction and background to the book. Tea break and opportunity afterwards for informal discussion of book's themes and plot.
Date : 10 January
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Sheffield
An Introduction to `Dombey and Son`
02:00 PM
Channing Hall, Surrey Street
Colleen Martell will give an introduction to our book of study for 2023 - `Dombey and Son`. This will be followed by a short business section
Date : 13 January
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Our Mutual Friend with Karen Hattaway
01:00 PM
Zoom
Murder, Money, Marriage, and Mounds... of dust, human refuse, cultural debris, industrial by-production. Join Professor Karen Hattaway (San Jacinto College) for a series of discussions about the book that stunned Conrad and Dostoevsky.
Date : 22 January
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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
Central Fellowship
Paul Graham: “Milor Beeron”: Echoes of the Byronic in Dickens’ Work”
06:30 PM
Date : 24 January
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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
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. 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 Visitors welcome!
Date : 27 January
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A Tale of Two Cities, Book the 2nd, Ch. 1-12. Presented by Kendall Mattern
11:00 AM
Zoom
The newly GLAD/GRAD merged Southern California Dickens Fellowship (SoCalDF) meets on Zoom, as Kendall Mattern leads a discussion on Book the 2nd, Ch. 1-12 of A Tale of Two Cities.
Date : 28 January
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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.
View summary outlines of Charles Dickens novels.
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