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Welcome to our monthly meetings for 106 years and going strong: Saturdays 1 – 4 PM at the BARNES & NOBLE BOOKSTORE at 86th & Lexington Ave, 150 East 86th Street, New York, NY 10028. On the south side of 86th Street just past the southeast corner of 86th Street and Lexington Ave, steps from the 86th Street subway station (4, 5, 6 trains). Events space – lower level.

 

It is the Dickens Fellowship policy (worldwide) to select a Dickens work for the year to read/discuss. Our latest choice is David Copperfield (The Personal History, Experience, and Observances of David Copperfield, The Younger) - his 8th novel, his 1st novel with a 1st person narrative, published in 20 monthly parts in 1849-1850. Each meeting also has readings, films, special events: all relevant to the life and times (Victorian) of Dickens.

 

David Copperfield is considered by many as Dickens’s masterpiece and draws more directly on events in his life – the focus on an individual hero’s adventures, on childhood and grotesque characters. It also deals with specific concerns of fallen women, emigration, education and the treatment of the insane. David learns the pitfalls and last joys of childhood in a prevailing sense of sadness – with a cast of scene stealers and lifelike details. 

 

Try to read the assigned chapters in advance of the meeting. You can also read, share, discuss, passages you found very interesting.

    
     

2011  DAVID COPPERFIELD

    
Feb. 5

Annual Celebration of Charles Dickens’s birthday (199th) Born Feb. 7, 1812 – Special luncheon with Dickens program/good food & wine. Special flyer will be distributed.

    
Mar.  12   Chapters 1 – 8    
Apr. 9  Chapters  9 – 16     
May 14  Chapters 17 – 24    
Jun. 11   Annual Special Luncheon to commemorate the passing of Charles Dickens, June 9, 1870 Good food & Socializing. Special flyer will be distributed    
Jul. 9   Chapters 25 – 32
Aug.  13 Chapters 33 – 40    
Sep. 10  Chapters 41 – 48    
Oct.  15   Chapters 49 – 56           
Nov.  12 

Chapters 57 – 64 The End!!!

    
Dec. 10 

Year-end Holiday Party (Chanakah, Christmas, Kwanzaa) with potluck food, grab-bags, skits and

socializing. Surprise entertainment!

    
       
Ask to learn of our plan to sponsor a Dickens Student Scholarship Essay Contest! If you have or find a Dickens reference/collectible, please add to our archives! We need members to help create/contribute to our newsletter “Gads Hill Gazette” now part of our website. We need members with ideas/help for fund raising for needy children through our Oliver Twist/Tiny Tim Fund!

 

The Dickens Fellowship of New York, c/o Rose Roberts Travel, 415 E. 52 Street, Ste 6K-C, New York, NY 10022. Phone: 212.371.9306. email: admin@dickensnewyork.com

 

Meetings 2008/2009

Meetings 2009/2010

Meetings 2010/2011

The Dickens Fellowship of New York and its members seek to keep the memory and study of Charles Dickens alive in New York City. The organization has aspects of a literary society or book club but includes much more as the name Fellowship implies. Our meetings include social events and group outings.  Members are kept apprised of cultural programs in New York City and the tri-state area that relate to Dickens and his Victorian era. Although we meet all the year round, as befitting Charles Dickens and A Christmas Carol, the Christmas season finds the Fellowship in especially hearty spirits.                               

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