Our first speaker for the year will be NSW Dickens Society President, Walter Mason. He will be giving us a talk held over from 2020: The Lost Art of the Gentleman Stroller: The Uncommercial Traveller and Dickens as Flaneur. Dickens’ collection of literary sketches, The Uncommercial Traveller, is little read now and most are unaware of its existence
Read MoreWritten and published at a tumultuous time in Dickens’ life in 1858 A Tale of Two Cities was Charles Dickens’s twelfth novel. In this presentation, author Kate Forsyth will share the fascinating true story behind the creation of this book by Dickens, and explains how it helped inspire her own novel of the French Revolution, The Blue Rose.
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