{"id":3794,"date":"2012-02-07T12:45:09","date_gmt":"2012-02-07T11:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.traveleurope.com\/en\/?p=3794"},"modified":"2013-09-25T10:52:07","modified_gmt":"2013-09-25T09:52:07","slug":"london-celebrates-charles-dickens-bicentenaryhappy-birthday-mr-boz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.traveleurope.com\/en\/london-celebrates-charles-dickens-bicentenaryhappy-birthday-mr-boz\/","title":{"rendered":"London celebrates Charles Dickens bicentenary: Happy Birthday Mr Boz!"},"content":{"rendered":"

2012 is the<\/strong> bicentenary year of Charles Dickens<\/strong>, one of the best known and best loved writers in English literature. So, if this was going to be London<\/a><\/strong>\u2019s year anyway, due to the 2012 Summer Olympics, it will be even more because of the whole of the world celebrating Dickens\u2019 work.<\/p>\n

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Actually, all the world is getting ready to pay homage to this great Victorian novelist who nicknamed himself “Boz”<\/a><\/strong> but celebrations in the UK definitely reach the climax. All round the country, tributes and events are getting underway<\/strong>. Starting from Dickens\u2019 place of birth<\/strong>, Portsmouth, where the author was born on February 7th, 1812<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

However, London has the major part to play in the life and times of Charles Dickens, especially as the poverty and discrimination he saw there were the inspiration for many of the books. Therefore, despite the great commitment for the Olympics and Diamond Jubilee, the city doesn\u2019t seem to be too flustered and is putting on plenty of events.
\nHere\u2019s what\u2019s going to happen in London, right on February 7th, 2012, the day of Dickens\u2019 bicentenary.<\/strong><\/p>\n

To start with, on the morning of the bicentenary, the Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall (ok, Charles and Camilla) will visit the Charles Dickens Museum: some of the world\u2019s finest Dickens-related collections in the only surviving London home of Dickens.<\/p>\n

Simultaneously with the wreath laying in Portsmouth, there will be one also at 11am in Westminster Abbey<\/a><\/strong>, Poets\u2019 Corner – where Dickens was buried in 1870<\/strong>. The ceremony will include readings from Dickens\u2019s writings by actor and director Ralph Fiennes, author Claire Tomalin and Mark Dickens, head of the Dickens family.<\/p>\n

At 7pm \u201cDickens’s London\u201d book launch at the<\/strong> bookHaus, 70 Cadogan Place, SW1x 9AH<\/strong>. A work by author Peter Clark, about Dickens’s intimate relationship with London. This event is free, with food and drinks provided. Dickens’s London will be for sale at the special price of \u00a37.<\/p>\n

The Charles Dickens Museum will be celebrating the 200th anniversary of his birth with a special dinner at Mansion House<\/strong> \u2013 the official home of the Lord Mayor of London, right in the heart of The City. It will be a fundraising dinner, with Dickens-themed entertainment led by the great Sir Patrick Stewart and musical performances by West End Kids. (\u00a3120 per person).<\/p>\n

In\u00a0the following days and weeks, you\u2019ll have a wealth of Dickens-related things to do in London as well. Enjoy a tour of Dickens London<\/strong> within the Square Mile on February 11; meet Charles Dickens<\/strong> on February 11 and 12, through the plots of his most famous books, to find out how some of his novels are actually based on his own childhood; until March 4th, the British Library<\/strong><\/a> will host an exhibition exploring Dickens’ relationship with the supernatural<\/strong>, and until April 1st, the original manuscript<\/strong> of his (autobiographical) masterpiece David Copperfield<\/strong>, can be seen at the Victoria and Albert Museum.<\/p>\n

It would take too long to list all the events scheduled, but they are surely all worth a try. So if you detect something interesting we\u2019ve left out… just type it down!<\/p>\n

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