July 2025: Malcolm Andrews: "The Text and its Pictures in the Original Edition of The Old Curiosity Shop" 

July 12 at 9:00-10:30 AM (Pacific) | Virtual Event 

Malcolm Andrews is Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Kent and author of a number of books on Dickens, including Charles Dickens and His Performing Selves (on Dickens’s public readings) and Dickensian Laughter, both published by Oxford University Press. He was Editor of The Dickensian (the journal of the Dickens Fellowship) for 30 years. 

He recently made a video, From Dickens’s Study, filmed in the study at Gad’s Hill (see photograph) and designed to introduce the house and discuss Dickens’s creative processes. It can be viewed here, on the Dickens Fellowship website:

https://dickensfellowship.org/index.php/news-household-words/410-from-dickens-s-study

The Santa Cruz Pickwick (Book) Club, a branch of the Dickens Fellowship, is a community of local bookworms, students, and teachers who meet monthly to discuss a nineteenth-century novel. The Santa Cruz Public Libraries provide support for the reading group.