Charles Dickens

1812-1870

200th Anniversary

Susan P. Whitcomb, Ph.D.

Dickens’s Imagination

Dickens As His Characters

Father and Son

Learning about the Law

Married Life

From Manuscript to Print

Dickens Illustrated

1842 Dickens in America

“I am a Reformer heart and soul.”

Dickens the Dramatist

1857 – A Year of Crisis

1865 Staplehurst Crash

Our Mutual Friend

1867 Public Readings

Died June 9, 1870.

Buried in Poet’s Corner,

Westminster Abbey

Topics to Explore

Christmas and The Christmas Carol

Dickens’s program for training prostitutes

Science: spontaneous combustion and mesmerism

Dickens and other authors, e.g. Thackeray, Wilkie

Collins, Elizabeth Gaskell

Pequot Library

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