A monster to my family
Submitted by Declan Kiely on Tue, 12/20/2011 - 11:06am
Even the prolific Dickens struggled with writer’s block.
Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.
Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.
Charles Dickens at 200
A Savage Stenographic Mystery
Submitted by Declan Kiely on Wed, 11/16/2011 - 11:01am
Can you help decipher a page of Dickens’s shorthand?
A wild beast in a caravan
Submitted by Declan Kiely on Wed, 11/16/2011 - 10:59am
Why does Dickens continue to prove such an elusive subject for biographers? Curator Declan Kiely takes a look at one particularly revealing letter.
Charles Dickens's Letters
Submitted by Declan Kiely on Thu, 11/10/2011 - 10:56am
This blog features letters from Charles Dickens drawn from the Morgan's collection, which includes over 1,500 of his letters. The Morgan has the largest collection of Dickens's letters in the United States, surpassed in number only by the Dickens House Museum, and the Victoria and Albert Museum, in London. Posts will include images of Dickens letters with a complete transcription, and a brief commentary on content and context. A Letter from Charles Dickens will allow readers of the blog to discover for the first time—or renew their acquaintance with—Dickens's notable letters.