Dickens and London
Text Correctors and Moderators: Receive 20% off adult tickets when pre-booking online.
9 December 2011 – 10 June 2012
Celebrate the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Dickens with the
Recreating the atmosphere of Victorian London through sound and projections, you’ll be taken on a haunting journey to discover the city that inspired his writings. Paintings, photographs, costume and objects will illustrate themes that Dickens wove into his works, while rarely seen manuscripts including Bleak House and David Copperfield – written in the author’s own hand – will offer clues to his creative genius.
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Join us to read A Tale of Two Cities week by week, as Dickens's first readers did, in his journal All the Year Round. We'll follow this fast-paced historical novel through its regular short instalments for 31 weeks. We start on 30 April 2012 (to coincide with the 1859 publication date) and we'll read our final instalment on the week of 26 November 2012. Participants can read the instalments in their magazine form via Dickens Journals Online. We'll share our responses in an online reading group.
Click here to view the Tale of Two Cities reading project blog
We hope that the project will introduce readers to this novel, and to All the Year Round, and that posts will help us all to see new things in Dickens's writing. The context of All the Year Round should help us to make connections with other events of the period, Dickens's concerns as a journalist and editor, and other authors of the time – Wilkie Collins was another major contributor. We'll get an insight into the serial reading so familiar to Victorians, which we've lost sight of with our paperback and Kindle versions, and have a chance to reflect on how reading in instalments changes the way we interpret and respond to the novel.
If you'd like to join the group, please email your interest to Holly Furneaux. Please resist the temptation, though, to read ahead with the novel!
We look forward to reading with you!
| Welcome to Dickens Journals Online (DJO), an open access online resource launched in March 2012, as part of the Dickens Bicentenary celebrations. DJO is, and will remain, an open access project, free for all to access and enjoy. Please enjoy the rich and varied content of our online journals: Household Words, Household Words Narrative, Household Words Almanac or All the Year Round. You can try a general search or the article index (being updated) and author index (being updated). |
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The OTC project was completed on the 7th February 2012, thanks to the hard work, dedication and enthusiasm of our many hundreds of volunteers. Now we want to hear from you! If you were a corrector or a moderator, we want to hear why you joined the project, what you enjoyed about it, what you found challenging and what you thought could have been improved. We want to collate as much feedback as possible to assist with future improvements to the site and to help develop other future "crowd-sourcing" projects. All information will remain anonymous and confidential.
Please click here to download the feedback form [Word doc]:
This can be returned to djo@buckingham.ac.uk
Recorded February 1st, 2012
Simon Callow
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