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Charles Dickens In London: 1812-1870 - Livestream History Tour
Sunday, February 7 - 1:00 PM EST Washington, DC time
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On this online/virtual tour, we experience the sounds sights and smells of Charles Dickens in London......!
Visit bustling Covent Garden- see the site of the notorious blacking factory where Dickens worked at age of 12!
In historic Southwark visit the site of the Marshalsea Debtors Prison where Dickens family were forced to live and provided the inspiration and setting for ‘Little Dorrit.’
Discover hidden twisting alleyway in the 2000 year old City of London where Ebenezer Scrooge had his counting house in 'Christmas Carol' and the Cornhill where Bob Cratchit went sledding over 20 times!
Explore the magical Inns of Court- the heart of legal London where Dickens revealed ‘lawyers lie like maggots in nuts’. Lincolns Inn is the setting for the notorious Court of Chancery in ‘Bleak House’ and Middle Temple is where Pip had his lodgings in ‘Great Expectations.’
Like all great Londoners- Dickens found inspiration in many of our historic pubs. Soak up the centuries at the 17th century Cheshire Cheese mentioned in ‘Tale of Two Cities’ or the 17th century only remaining galleried coaching inn in London- the 17th C George Inn mentioned in Little Dorrit.
No exploration of Dickens London would be complete without a visit to the Charles Dickens Museum-we’ll show you the house where he lived and worked with his family for 3 years and where hecreated Nicholas Nickelby and Oliver Twist!
And because this is virtual we can also join Dickens on his 2 trips to the US!
Charles (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime and, by the 20th century, critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary genius. His novels and short stories are still widely read today.
Born in Portsmouth, Dickens left school to work in a factory when his father was incarcerated in a debtors' prison. Despite his lack of formal education, he edited a weekly journal for 20 years, wrote 15 novels, five novellas, hundreds of short stories and non-fiction articles, lectured and performed readings extensively, was an indefatigable letter writer, and campaigned vigorously for children's rights, education and other social reforms.
Dickens's literary success began with the 1836 serial publication of The Pickwick Papers. Within a few years he had become an international literary celebrity, famous for his humour, satire and keen observation of character and society. His novels, most of them published in monthly or weekly instalments, pioneered the serial publication of narrative fiction, which became the dominant Victorian mode for novel publication. Cliffhanger endings in his serial publications kept readers in suspense. The instalment format allowed Dickens to evaluate his audience's reaction, and he often modified his plot and character development based on such feedback. For example, when his wife's chiropodist expressed distress at the way Miss Mowcher in David Copperfield seemed to reflect her disabilities, Dickens improved the character with positive features. His plots were carefully constructed and he often wove elements from topical events into his narratives. Masses of the illiterate poor would individually pay a halfpenny to have each new monthly episode read to them, opening up and inspiring a new class of readers.
His 1843 novella A Christmas Carol remains especially popular and continues to inspire adaptations in every artistic genre. Oliver Twist and Great Expectations are also frequently adapted and, like many of his novels, evoke images of early Victorian London. His 1859 novel A Tale of Two Cities (set in London and Paris) is his best-known work of historical fiction. The most famous celebrity of his era, he undertook, in response to public demand, a series of public reading tours in the later part of his career. Dickens has been praised by many of his fellow writers – from Leo Tolstoy to George Orwell, G. K. Chesterton and Tom Wolfe – for his realism, comedy, prose style, unique characterisations and social criticism. However, Oscar Wilde, Henry James and Virginia Woolf complained of a lack of psychological depth, loose writing and a vein of sentimentalism.
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Our host for this program is Simon Whitehouse of London Walks.
My name is Simon Whitehouse-storyteller of London. I am a dynamic, enthusiastic and passionate guide whose aim is to inform, educate and entertain.
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