Members of the Melbourne Dickens Fellowship hold regular meetings at The Faichney Room
Toorak Uniting Church, 603 Toorak Rd, Toorak, Victoria starting 7:30pm for 7:45pm
We welcome visitors. Please just come along & announce yourself. (Map)
If you have any questions or are interested in joining, please CONTACT US
Upcoming presentations and speakers are also listed on the home page.
Date |
Event / Presentation |
|---|---|
Friday February 10th |
The Dickens 211th Birthday Commemoration Dinner: Guest Speaker: Peter Groves, Faculty of Arts, School of Languages, Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics, Monash University.6:30pm for 7:00pm, University House, Cnr Tin Alley & Professors’ Walk, University of Melbourne, Parkville. Click here for the accompanying slides. |
Wednesday March 15th |
Introduction to The Pickwick Papers: Brian Ruck |
Wednesday April 19th |
Reflections on Some of Dickens’s Interpolate Tales in The Pickwick Papers: Alan Dilnot |
Wednesday May 17th |
Bardell vs Pickwick, A Play: Peter Spriggins |
Wednesday June 21st |
The President’s Night: Brian Ruck in lieu of Frances – let’s identify autobiographical sections by Dickens that his biographers have not enlightened us about – did he write from lived experience? |
Wednesday July 19th |
Visualising Pickwick Papers: from Phiz to Noel Langley: Terry Hayes |
Wednesday August 16th |
(1) Pickwick Syndrome, to Sleep, Perchance to Dream: Veronica Delafosse(2) “The Tuggs’s at Ramsgate” from Sketches by Boz: Deb Rhodes |
Wednesday September 20th |
(1) Annual General Meeting and Elections(2) Another, girly, Pickwick Club: Barbara Sharpe |
Wednesday October 18th |
Charles Dickens and Hans Christian Andersen: Patricia Wiltshire |
Wednesday November 15th |
The Landseers and Dickens: Looking at Members of the Landseer Family in Connection to the Life and Works of Dickens: Barbara Sharpe |
Wednesday December 13th (Second Wednesday) |
Christmas Party (for Members) |
| Traditional Readings, Quiz, Singing, and Supper (under current COVID-19 restrictions). | |