Montreal Dickens Fellowship
for the best of times

Hour #1: Review of Study Questions Book II Chapters 9-16 / Open Discussion

Hour #2:  Suggested Resource for Viewing and Discussion:
               BBC  T.V. Production  “Our Mutual Friend” Part IV (50 minutes)

Hour #1: Professor Malcolm Andrews: "Dickens Dream" and exploration of Dickens’s creative processes, drawing on his own descriptions and on the reports of others.

Hour #2:  Suggested Resource for Viewing and Discussion:
               BBC  T.V. Production  “Our Mutual Friend” Part V (50 minutes)

Review of Study Questions Book III Chapters 1-10 / Open Discussion

Hour #1. Guest Speaker: Henrietta Johnson
               Topic: The Thames: Liquid History through Dickens's OMF

Bio: Henrietta Johnson is a retired English teacher who hails from Kentucky. She is a dual resident, citizen and thinker of the U.S. and Canada. She obtained her early education in the U.S. She attended the University of Kentucky and completed graduate studies at Washington University (St. Louis). She also worked as a research assistant in sociology and community medicine. Henrietta joined the Toronto Dickens Fellowship (1972) and Philadelphia Dickens Fellowship (1978) and treasures the many long- standing friendships she has made within these groups. She has attended many branch conferences worldwide and has given many presentations on Dickens and his writing. Through teaching courses on Dickens, she has come to appreciate the wealth of humor, history and humanity in his novels. She is currently “retired” but active as ever. As well as a student of 19th century England, she is also a student of 19th century America due to her admiration and study of Abraham Lincoln.


Hour #2:  Review of Study Questions Book III chap 11-17 and Book IV chap 1-6

DiscussionSuggested Resource for Viewing and Discussion:
               BBC  T.V. Production  “Our Mutual Friend” Part VI (50 minutes)

Hour #1: Guest Speaker ( To Be Announced)
                 Topic ( To be Announced)
Study questions. Book IV chapters 7-16

 Hour #2:  Suggested Resource for Viewing and Discussion:
                BBC  T.V. Production  “Our Mutual Friend” Part VII (50 minutes)