Celebrating Dickens

‘I was born’. In that most well-known of opening passages, narrator David Copperfield reflects on his arrival in the world. And today, if you hadn’t already noticed with the mass of new editions, biographies, adaptations, exhibitions and so on and so forth, is the bicentenary of the author’s birth. Today and for the rest of this year, it’s time to mark and celebrate the life and works of that great Victorian novelist and social commentator: Charles Dickens.

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