Charles Dickens News

Seeking more Dickens (Chatham Daily News)
Charles Dickens fans now have a new research centre at the main branch of the Chatham-Kent Library. Members of the Charles Dickens' Fellowship have donated a bookcase to the library containing a number of boåoks written by the famous English author.[...]

Where the Dickens has his blue plaque gone? (Lancashire Evening Post)
Literary great Charles Dickens has mysteriously gone missing in Preston... well, his blue plaque has at least.

Appeal to restore Dickens' chalet (BBC News)
A £100,000 appeal is launched to save the wooden chalet in Kent in which Charles Dickens wrote Great Expectations.

Montclairvoyant: The Wiggles, Charles Dickens, and robots share a column (The Montclair Times)
I'm so depressed about Montclair's budget crisis that I absentmindedly thought the Studio Players' production of "The Seven Year Itch" was about mosquitoes in middle school.

Appeal to save chalet where Charles Dickens wrote Great Expectations (Daily Telegraph)
An appeal has been launched to raise £100,000 to save the chalet in which Charles Dickens wrote many of his famous works, including Great Expectations.

Tales are a good read (Hartlepool Mail)
A writings new book, which mixes local fact with fiction, proved so popular 200 copies were sold in just a few hours after it was released.

Christmas cakes tower over other desserts (Galveston County Daily News)
For Christmas dinners around the world, dessert is the grand finale, and cakes are the biggest star.

Monica Conyers gets 37 months in prison in Synagro bribery scandal (Detroit Free Press)
Judge Avern Cohn said that the former Detroit councilwoman's conduct "fell woefully short" of the standard expected of public servants, and that she violated basic standards of conduct.

Frank A. Chrest, city schools special-education teacher, dies (Baltimore Sun)
Frank A. Chrest, a special-education teacher who taught in city public schools for nearly 40 years, died Thursday of pneumonia at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center. He was 97.

Jacksonville celebrates Black History (Jacksonville News)
Last weekend, Jacksonville held its annual Black History Program at the Community Center. This year, the program spotlighted the youth in Jacksonville.