Dickens Past Readings

2023

  • George Gissing, New Grub Street
  • The Mystery of Edwin Drood
  • Sketches by Boz
  • Wilkie Collins, Armadale
  • Sketches by Boz: Sketches of Young Gentlemen; Sketches of Young Couples; The Mudfog and Other Stories
  • Pickwick Papers
  • A Christmas Carol

2021–2022

  • Bleak House
  • Oliver Goldsmith, The Vicar of Wakefield
  • Christmas Stories 
  • Little Dorrit
  • Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
  • A Tale of Two Cities
  • Great Expectations
  • Little Dorrit
  • Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
  • A Tale of Two Cities
  • Great Expectations
  • Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, Wives and Daughters
  • Our Mutual Friend
  • “Mrs. Lirriper’s Lodgings” and/or “Mrs. Lirriper’s Legacy”

2020–2021

  • Dombey and Son
  • Elizabeth Gaskell, North And South
  • The Haunted Man and The Battle of Life (1848 and 1846 respectively)
  • Hard Times
  • David Copperfield
  • Henry Fielding, Tom Jones 
  • A selection from Henry Mayhew’s London Labour And The London Poor

2019–2020

  • Wilkie Collins, The Moonstone
  • Christmas stories
  • Barnaby Rudge
  • George Eliot, Silas Marner
  • Martin Chuzzlewit 
  • American Notes

2018–2019

  • Our Mutual Friend 
  • Sketches by Boz
  • Pickwick Papers
  • Mystery of Edwin Drood
  • Nicholas Nickleby 
  • Oliver Twist

2017–2018

  • Bleak House
  • Hard Times
  • The Cricket on the Hearth & Other Christmas Tales 
  • Little Dorrit
  • A Tale of Two Cities
  • Great Expectations
  • Sketches by Boz 

2016–2017

  • Barnaby Rudge
  • Martin Chuzzlewit
  • Holiday Novella
  • Dombey & Son
  • David Copperfield

2015–2016

  • The Pickwick Papers
  • A Christmas Carol
  • Oliver Twist
  • Nicholas Nickleby
  • The Old Curiosity Shop