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Dickens Birthday Roundup: Mutual Fans Have Hard Times Keeping Up With the Day’s Great Expectations

Members of the Pickwick Bicycle Club outside the Charles Dickens Birthplace Museum in Portsmouth on the author’s 200th birthday. (Chris Ison, Press Association/AP Images)

 

“The whole country seems to have gone mad with Dickens,” says A.N.

Five Ways You Can Celebrate Charles Dickens’ 200th Birthday

“We meet on this day,” Charles Dickens said in a speech marking the tricentennial anniversary of William Shakespeare‘s birth, “to celebrate the birthday of a vast army of living men and women who will live for ever ...

Steampunk’d at BookExpo

Anglophenia guest-blogger Paul Hechinger is back with more from last week’s BookExpo America. This time, he reports on the majorly hot literary “genre,” Steam Punk, which was explored in a panel at the convention.