Dickens in the British Museum - July 15th 2010

I'm very pleased to announce that the next session for the reading group has been scheduled for Thursday July 15th 2010, 6pm, and will take place in a new venue - the Old Sanskrit Library, in the British Museum. Dickens used the Museum's reading rooms throughout his writing career, whose full stretch will be represented in the texts chosen for this occasion - we'll be discussing two short stories from the early 1830s ('The Boarding House' and 'The Bloomsbury Christening') that can be found in his Sketches by Boz (1836-7) as well as his great and stimulatingly incomplete last novel The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1870). Apologies again to those of you who've already done this reading and have been itching to talk about it since the session back in May was unfortunately postponed - hopefully the prospect of being shown the precise place where Dickens tended to work will go some way to compensate for this wait.