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Calling all those who signed up for the Baa Baa Brighouse Book Club - it's time for the big reveal!

Introducing 'Great Expectations', a 100g skein of hand dyed 100% British Bluefaced Leicester 4 ply high twist yarn. There are two skeins in each box.

Included in the box is a copy of the Penguin Clothbound Classic edition of the book and a tin of Victorian style tea.

Boxes are already on their way. Happy knitting!

All of the Original Illustrations From Charles Dickens’ Novels Are Available To View Online via My Modern Met [Shared]

The Charles Dickens Illustrated Gallery has archived all of the original images featured in Dickens' work throughout his creative career. Dr. Michael John Goodman, who is also the creator of the Victorian Illustrated Shakespeare Archive, had the idea to digitize the art from Dickens' novels during the COVID-19 lockdown.

“The world of Dickens illustration is beset with poor reproductions of the source material, so for this project, I have searched out what I consider to be some of the best editions that feature the original illustrations printed to a decent quality,” Goodman explains. After collecting and scanning the images, he even cleaned them up in Photoshop, so that they look as crisp as possible.

welchwrite.com/blog/2025/03/22

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Calling all those who signed up for the Baa Baa Brighouse Book Club - it's time for the big reveal!

Introducing 'A Tale of Two Cities', a 100g skein of hand dyed 100% British Bluefaced Leicester 4 ply high twist yarn. There are two skeins in each box.

Included in the box is a copy of the Penguin Clothbound Classic edition of the book and a tin of Victorian style tea.

Boxes are already on their way. Happy knitting!

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"It was the popular theme for jests; it was the best cure for headache, it infallibly prevented hair from turning grey, it imparted a peculiar delicacy to the complexion, it was the National Razor which shaved close: who kissed La Guillotine, looked through the little window and sneezed into the sack."

The latest chapter in my novel Songbird features Great Marlborough Street and the Marlborough Street Magistrates Court (pictured, Wikipedia), which has played host to a number of famous people over the years including Oscar Wilde, John Lennon, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Johnny Rotten and Christine Keeler. Charles Dickens also worked there, as a reporter.

"Firmness, I may observe, was the grand quality on which both Mr. and Miss Murdstone took their stand. However I might have expressed my comprehension of it at that time, if I had been called upon, I nevertheless did clearly comprehend in my own way, that it was another name for tyranny; and for a certain gloomy, arrogant, devil’s humour, that was in them both." - From David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

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"Mr Cruncher himself always spoke of the year of our Lord as Anna Dominoes: apparently under the impression that the Christian era dated from the invention of a popular game, by a lady who had bestowed her name upon it".

A tale of two cities, Charles Dickens

Calling all those who signed up for the Baa Baa Brighouse Book Club - it's time for the big reveal!

Introducing 'Hard Times', a 100g skein of hand dyed 100% British Bluefaced Leicester 4 ply high twist yarn. There are two skeins in each box.

Included in the box is a copy of the Penguin Clothbound Classic edition of the book and a tin of Victorian style tea.

Boxes are already on their way. Happy knitting!

"Abbi un cuore che mai indurisce, un carattere che mai si stanca, ed un tocco che mai ferisce”.

Il #7febbraio del 1812 nasceva #CharlesDickens, tra i più grandi scrittori britannici di sempre, famoso per aver dato voce e dignità letteraria ai derelitti dell'Inghilterra vittoriana.

Tra i suoi capolavori "Le avventure di Oliver Twist", "Tempi difficili", "David Copperfield" e "A Christmas Carol".

In the book The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep, David Copperfield was given so much love and appreciation that I thought, "Damn, maybe I should read that one." So here I am - decades removed from any class where reading a mid-19th Century story by one of the most celebrated authors ever is a requirement - picking up my dad's battered old Signet Classic paperback and settling in for almost 900 pages of very small print. 😎 #Books #FridayReads #AmReading #CharlesDickens #Bookstodon @bookstodon