Celebrating Charles Dickens at 200! ~ February 7, 2012

I direct you to my post on Charles Dickens at my Jane Austen in Vermont blog, as we celebrate today his 200th birthday!

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Bookplate Collection at the University of Delaware

The University of Delaware announces its new online digital collection of the William Augustus Brewer Bookplate Collection: [Charles Dickens Bookplate] Reverend William Augustus Brewer was an avid bookplate collector. His wife, Augusta LaMotte Brewer, bequeathed his collection to the University of Delaware Library after her husband’s death. The William Augustus Brewer Bookplate Collection comprises 12,680 [...]

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Charles Dickens ~ February 7, 1812

      There is so much written about Charles Dickens, I can only here convey Happy Birthday wishes, a few pictures, a few links and a reminder to watch the Masterpiece Classic Dickens extravaganza beginning February 15 [check your PBS listings]         Further Reading: [with endless links to biographies, works, criticism] [...]

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A Few Words on Wilkie Collins

Today [January 8, 1824 - September 23, 1889] is the birthday of one of my favorite writers, Wilkie Collins.  Longtime friend of Dickens, Collins is most known for being the first writer of full-length detective stories. The Woman in White [1860]  and The Moonstone [1868] are considered his best works, and though I personally love those [...]

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Dickens ~ “A Christmas Carol”

Today we celebrate Dickens A Christmas Carol , first published on December 19, 1843.  Illustrated by John Leech, it was the first of Dickens’s Christmas stories, instantly successful, selling over 6,000 copies in a week.  It also stimulated a revival of the Christmas traditions that we associate with Victorian England, many of which we still practice [...]

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Exhibitions of Note at The Morgan Library

The Morgan Library & Museum has two exhibitions of interest: John Milton’s Paradise Lost:  October 7, 2008- January 4, 2009 “John Milton’s Paradise Lost celebrates the 400th anniversary of the birth of John Milton (1608–1674) with an exhibition drawn from the Morgan’s collection of the English poet’s work, which includes the only surviving manuscript of [...]

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