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NY -- NYC -- New York Public Library (Schwarzman Bldg) -- Exhibit: A Dickens Christmas:

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Description of Pictures: A Dickens Christmas
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Charles Dickens, long an avid theatre-goer and performer in amateur theatricals, gave his first public reading of A Christmas Carol in 1853. The charismatic author is said to have employed a different voice, a different style, for each of his characters, and he regularly appeared before audiences for the next sixteen years, charming audiences and critics alike. In 1867-68, Dickens brought his reading tour to the United States. This holiday season, the Library is celebrating with a special installation featuring Dickens’s heavily annotated prompt-copies—which he used in his performances—of A Christmas Carol and other holiday books, including The Chimes and The Cricket on the Hearth, together with original photographs, first editions, and ephemera.

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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. NYPLDX_191221_01.JPG: A Dickens Christmas
2. NYPLDX_191221_05.JPG: Playbill for The Chimes at the Adelphi Theatre, London December 26, 1844
3. NYPLDX_191221_12.JPG: Sold-Out Shows
4. NYPLDX_191221_15.JPG: Sold-Out Shows Dickens began giving public readings in 1853. In 187, he traveled to Dublin -- as seen in this letter to his sister-in-law, Georgina Hogarth -- where he read A Christmas Carol and other works to packed houses. At the final reading in Dublin, there were close to 4,000 people in the audience, an a further 2,000 people were refused admission. Later in the year, Dickens embarked on a grand reading tour of the United States, where he was similarly mobbed. He recorded is readings -- some 17 between Boston and New York in December alone -- in this small pocket diary. The tickets, seen here, were presumably kept as souvenirs.
5. NYPLDX_191221_16.JPG: Charles Dickens Letter to Georgina Hogarth, signed and dated Dublin, March 15, 1867
6. NYPLDX_191221_19.JPG: The Cricket on the Hearth: A Fairy Tale of Home, 1845
7. NYPLDX_191221_27.JPG: Charles Dickens's ivory ticket for Her Majesty's Theatre 1860 Ticket for a Charles Dickens reading at Steinway Hall New York, December 17, 1867
8. NYPLDX_191221_32.JPG: Charles Diary Diary 1867
9. NYPLDX_191221_39.JPG: Dickens's Own Reading Copies By the 1850s, Dickens was a world-renowned literary celebrity, and he hearkened back to an early love of performance as he embarked on a new phase of his career: that of professional reader. He had copies of three of his Christmas books, seen here, specially bound with wide margins so that he could revise and emend the text to best effect for a reading. He underlined passages for emphasis and added notes to remind himself of tone (like "Very pathetic" at the opening of the third chapter, or "chirp," in Cricket, at left). He also cancelled and added large portions of text, as in Carol (at center) and The Chimes (at right). Dickens began given public readings in 1853 to raise money for charity, but the reaction of audiences was so intense that by 1858 he embarked upon a series of weekly paid readings in London. Over the course of the next 16 years, Dickens gave more than 400 such readings.
10. NYPLDX_191221_57.JPG: Dickens's Inkpot Inkstand and pen Before 1870 Traces of Dickens's characteristic dark blue ink stain the interior of this inkstand, which he used near the end of his life in 1870. The Keuffel & Esser pen, designed with a long and relatively dull steel nib, was intended for use by draughtsmen who needed to draw or write rapidly without scratching or catching in the grain of the paper. For Dickens, who was often working on multiple creative and philanthropic projects simultaneously (in addition to maintaining his voluminous correspondence) and was regularly under the pressure of monthly deadlines, fine ink and a quality pen were imperative.
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