Pages of the Past bookstore, located at 13 Baltimore St., Gettysburg, is pleased to host author and scholar Dr. Robert Garnett for a discussion of his latest work, Charles Dickens In Love, on Saturday, April 12 at 6:30 p.m. When Charles Dickens died in 1870, he was the most well-known man in the English-speaking world and the pre-eminent Victorian celebrity. Yet, when the first person named in his will turned out to be an unknown woman named Ellen Ternan, only a handful of people had any idea who she was, and her conspicuous presence in his will was a mystery. She was not, however, the first woman who had fired his imagination. Using hundreds of primary sources, Charles Dickens in Love narrates the story of the most intense romances of Dickens life, and shows how his novels testify to his own strongest affections and serve as memorials to the young women he loved. Garnett is a graduate of Dartmouth College and the University of Virginia, and currently Professor of English at Gettysburg College. He has researched Dickens for over a dozen years, presented papers on him at many academic conferences and has published articles on his life and novels in scholarly journals such as Dickens Quarterly and Dickens Studies Annual. The event is free and open to the public, but reservations are required. To register, email [email protected] or call (717) 334-0572.
Posted on: Thu, 20 Mar 2014 18:09:06 +0000
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