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This summer’s edition of The Dickens Universe - a unique cultural event that brings together scholars, teachers, students, ...
IF THE ADAGE is true that there are no small parts, only small actors, then I can’t help feeling that, in adapting Charles Dickens’ “The Old Curiosity Shop” into a four-hour miniseries ...
“The Old Curiosity Shop” is probably the most stickily sentimental of Dickens’ work, known as much for the great Oscar Wilde quip -- “One would have to have a heart of stone to read the ...
The 1934 adaptation of Charles Dickens's The Old Curiosity Shop stays faithful to the spirit of the original, finds Sameer Rahim.
To celebrate the bicentenary or 200th anniversary of Victorian era writer, Charles Dickens, take a walk through the lanes and pubs of London to see the city through his eyes.
AS THE STEAMSHIP BRITANNIA veered into her berth at Long Wharf on the evening of January 22, 1842, 29-year-old Charles Dickens stood on deck, huddled against the wind in a bearskin coat. The ...
In “The Old Curiosity Shop,” Little Nell undertakes a fatal walk from London using treacherous paths that she is told were “never made for little feet like yours.” ...
Dress up in your best Victorian attire for the Curiosity Gala, an event to support The Dickens Project, an academic ...