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'I so shaped out my walk': Charles Dickens's perambulatory patterns
We are delighted to host the launch of OCLW Visiting Scholar Helena Kelly’s new book The Life and Lies of Charles Dickens (2023).
Dickens is known for his walks through the seamier London neighbourhoods but in this discussion we’ll follow him elsewhere, to the towns around the River Medway where he lived both as a child and an adult, and some of the routes he trod and compulsively re-trod throughout his life and writing career. Join Dickens biographer Helena Kelly and Charlie Lee-Potter, whose writing and multimedia work explores ways of moving through the landscape, as they retrace Dickens’s footsteps, and those of his characters, encountering Medway native and sometime resident Nelly Ternan, discovering unexpected juxtapositions, and revealing patterns of longing and belonging.
Helena will have copies of the book to sell and sign after the talk.
Date:
14 November 2023, 14:00
Venue:
Venue to be announced
Speaker:
Dr Helena Kelly
Organising department:
Oxford Centre for Life-Writing
Organiser:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Organiser contact email address:
admin.oclw@wolfson.ox.ac.uk
Booking required?:
Required
Booking url:
https://oclw.web.ox.ac.uk/event/helena-kelly
Cost:
Free
Audience:
Public
Editor:
Anna Senkiw
