charles dickens rare books and ephemera 1812 - 1870, 200th anniversary by susan whitcomb, ph.d
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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
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