TODAY at The Dickens Project SL: TEA WITH MR. DICKENS - Klannex Northmead & "Little Dorrit"

 

2pm slt: Tea With Mr. Dickens - "Little Dorrit"

Poet Klannex Northmead presents an hour of satire and irony from one of Mr. Dickens' most worthy works including, as it does, some of his most pointed social commentary (complete with Dickensian rants).

The event will be live in Voice at Fezziwig's Courtyard, accessible from The Dickens Project Welcome Area

Little Dorrit is a novel by English author Charles Dickens, originally published in serial form between 1855 and 1857. The story features Amy Dorrit, youngest child of her family, born and raised in the Marshalsea prison for debtors in London.

The novel satirizes some shortcomings of both government and society, including the institution of debtors' prisons, where debtors were imprisoned, unable to work and yet incarcerated until they had repaid their debts. The prison in this case is the Marshalsea, where Dickens's own father had been imprisoned. Dickens is also critical of the impotent bureaucracy of the British government, in this novel in the form of the fictional "Circumlocution Office". Dickens also satirizes the stratification of society that results from the British class system.