Dickens Fellowship Joint Honorary General Secretary Joan Dicks and John Galazin
Featured Speaker Jerry White, Mr. Galazin, and Mrs. Dicks
John Galazin with Dr. Tony Williams, past Joint Honorary General Secretary, author and Dickens Authority
Visit to the Dickens Fellowship in London
| Dickens Fellowship of New York Vice-President John Galazin recently visited London and was able to tour the Dickens Museum at 48 Doughty Street and also attend the monthly meeting of the London Headquarters Fellowship Chapter. The meeting was held at London's Art Workers Guild on November 12, 2009 and featured "Dickens and Albert Smith", a talk by Jerry White, author of "London in the Nineteenth Century". | |||
| Albert Smith (1816-60) was an interesting but forgotten figure of literary London, who dramatized several of Dickens's novels for the stage and also produced some ephemeral plays and novels of his own. His chief enterprise was a series of one-man entertainments. In the beginning his works were performed in smaller, more intimate venues. However, as word spread about his work, many of his plays began to feature in larger theaters--some as big as the biggest blackpool hotels - and were very well received. He married in 1859 Mary, the actress-daughter of Robert Keeley, and died at the height of his popularity. His simple entertainment, whose charm lay as much in the spontaneity and wit of its presentation as in the actual material, was frequently patronized by Queen Victoria and the royal children. | |||
Dickens Fellowship Joint Honorary General Secretary Joan Dicks and John Galazin |
Featured Speaker Jerry White, Mr. Galazin, and Mrs. Dicks |
John Galazin with Dr. Tony Williams, past Joint Honorary General Secretary, author and Dickens Authority |
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| The Dickens Museum, 48 Doughty Street, London, at Christmas Time | ||
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