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27/1/2012

CHARLES DICKENS

born 7 February 1812
died 9 June 1870

The whole point of the Dickens festivals is to celebrate Dickens and his connections with Rochester. 2012 is the 200th anniversary of Dickens' birth, and it is being marked with many special events (more on our news page).

There is a huge amount of information in print and on the web. An excellent place to start is by visiting the Dickens Fellowship website, and if you want to learn more, with an emphasis on Dickens' many local connections, join their Rochester and Chatham Branch - their web page will give you all the information you need.

Our thanks to Mrs. McVey and Her 5th Graders in the USA who have visited this site in the course of their research and passed on this link about Dickens' work seen from the viewpoint of education in literature.

David Perdue's Charles Dickens page is very useful for costume information and background information about Dickens characters..

The Dickens Museum, in the house where Dickens lived for three years from 1837, in Doughty Street in London, has received a much needed £2 million grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund for extensive renovation in the lead-up to the celebrations of the bicentenary of Dickens' birth, in 2012. The house is particularly worth restoring because structually it is largely unaltered since Dickens' time. With unfortunate timing the restoration is currently scheduled for 2012.

Dickens had many connections with the south East - there is an interesting feature on some of them on the 'Culture 24' website

2012 is the 200th anniversary of Dickens' birth.