Tag: Dickens

Resource: the Charles Dickens Illustrated Gallery

Digitizing the Victorians

Available at CharlesDickensIllustration.org, the Gallery contains over 2000 free-to-use illustrations for teachers, educators or creatives to do whatever they like with, taken from the most significant illustrated editions of Dickens’s works up to 1912 (the centenary of his birth). The project launched about 18 months ago now, with just the original illustrations (about 700 images), and now also features the illustrations from the Household Edition, Library Edition, and the ‘Pears’ Centenary Edition of the Christmas Books.

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The Domestic Hearth: Writings by Dickens, Beeton, Stevenson, and Hodgson Burnett

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It is a starting point rather than a truism that the Victorians’ vision of domesticity had ‘the domestic hearth’ front and centre. This post will discuss novels (or novellas) written in the 1840s to the 1880s, by Dickens, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Frances Hodgson Burnett. These authors explore the theme of the domestic hearth through characters whose experiences of states like warmth, comfort, mutuality, cold, want, and social isolation may be fixed, or undergo transformations. Meanwhile, Isabella Beeton’s Book of

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