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