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A Dickens fair (also Dickensian evening, Dickens Christmas fair, Dickens fête, or Dickens festival) is a weekend or multi-day gathering open to the public that attempts to recreate a Victorian English setting reminiscent of the novels of Charles Dickens. Events may be outdoor, indoor or a combination of the two.
Charles John Huffam Dickens (/ ˈ d ɪ k ɪ n z / ⓘ; 7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English novelist, journalist, short story writer and social critic.He created some of literature's best-known fictional characters, and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. [1]
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American Notes for General Circulation is a travelogue by Charles Dickens detailing his trip to North America from January to June 1842. While there he acted as a critical observer of North American society, almost as if returning a status report on their progress.
For 38 years, the festival has featured small businesses, performances and a Victorian village on Franklin's historic square as an ode to author Charles Dickens. Festival attendees were able to ...
Margolyes takes a steam-powered paddleboat down the Ohio River, following the route Dickens took. Margolyes notes that Dickens and his wife, Catherine, celebrated their 6th wedding anniversary while on the Mississippi River. Margolyes stops off in Cairo, Illinois, which served as a model for the disastrous development of Eden in Martin Chuzzlewitt
Charles Dickens' birthplace. Charles Dickens' Birthplace Museum [1] is a writer's house museum in Landport, Portsmouth, England [2] situated at the birthplace of the eminent English author Charles Dickens; [3] and as such played a prominent part [4] in the 2012 bicentennial celebrations. [5]
The letters of Charles Dickens, of which more than 14,000 are known, range in date from about 1821, when Dickens was 9 years old, to 8 June 1870, the day before he died. [1] They have been described as "invariably idiosyncratic, exuberant, vivid, and amusing…widely recognized as a significant body of work in themselves, part of the Dickens ...