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Welcome to our monthly meetings for 103 years and going strong: Saturdays 1 – 4 PM at the Yorkville Library 222 E. 79 St. (between 2nd & 3rd Aves.) for 2008/2009.

It is the Dickens Fellowship policy (worldwide) to select a Dickens work for the year to read/discuss. Our latest choice is The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, his 6th novel- written in 1843-4. Each meeting also has readings, films, special events: all relevant to the life and times (Victorian) of Dickens.

 Martin Chuzzlewit is a story of an inheritance of two descendents with the same heritage of selfishness and hypocrisy; and of the need to recognize the existence of other fellow humans. As usual with Charles Dickens it is filled with comic characters but still with the grimmest reaches of criminality.

Charles Dickens dedicated this book to his dear friend Miss Burdett Coutts.

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

    
     
Martin Chuzzlewit                           2008 – A Healthy/Happy New Year To All!    
Jan. 12  Chapters 1 – 5    
Feb.  9    Annual Celebration of Charles Dickens’s birthday (196th) Born Feb. 7, 1812 – Special luncheon with Dickens program/good food & wine. Advance flyer to be given @ Dec. party and Jan. meeting
Mar.  8   Chapters  6 – 10    
Apr. 12  Chapters 11 – 15      
May 3  Chapters 16 – 20    
Jun. 7   Annual Special Luncheon to commemorate the passing of Charles Dickens, June 9, 1870 – Good food & wine!    
Jul. 12   Chapters 21 – 26      
Aug.  9 Chapters 27 – 32      
Sep. 13  Chapters 33 – 38     
Oct.  4   Chapters 39 – 44          
Nov.  8  Chapters 45 – 50 + Vote for Next Dickens Book!!!    
Dec. 14  Year-end Holiday Party (Chanakah, Christmas, Kwanzaa) with potluck food, grab-bags, skits and socializing. If coming, call for details.    
2009 – A Healthy/Happy New Year To All!    
Jan. 10  Chapters 51 – 53 The End!!! + videotape movie of Martin Chuzzlewit    
       

Ask to learn of our plan to sponsor a Dickens Student Scholarship Essay Contest! We need members to help create/contribute to our newsletter “Gads Hill Gazette”. We need members with ideas/help for fund raising for needy children through our Oliver Twist/Tiny Tim Fund!