A Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations (Penguin) - Charles Dickens [191]
Illustrations of Eighteenth-Century Fashion and Culture and Dickens's Victorian World
i1. Line art drawing of a coach, by Pearson Scott Foresman.
i2. These drawings of headdresses and shoes from the late eighteenth century suggest the type of large bonnet Miss Pross wore.
i3. Examples of mid-eighteenth-century women's mules, of the type Dr. Manette might have made while in the Bastille.
i4 and i5. A late eighteenth-century rendering of the guillotine, from Octave Uzanne, Le Livre (Paris: A. Quantin, 1885), and an example of the motto of the revolutionaries.
i6. A drawing from the Tom Taylor, Fox Cooper play copy of A Tale of Two Cities (London: J. Dicks, 1886), depicting the struggle between Miss Pross and Madame Defarge.
i7. Charles Dickens in his study at Gad's Hill Place, by Evert A. Duyckinck, from A Portrait Gallery of Eminent Men and Women in Europe and America (New York: Johnson, Wilson & Co., 1873).
i8. This cartoon compares women's style of dress from the late eighteenth century with that of the mid-Victorian period in which Dickens wrote A Tale of Two Cities.
i9, i10 and i11. Late 1850s fashion plates from magazines, such as Godey's and the Gazette, showing the fashions Victorians wore during the period in which Dickens wrote A Tale of Two Cities.
Further Reading
Ackroyd, Peter. Dickens’ London: An Imaginative Vision. London: Headline Book Publishers, PLC, 1987.
Allen, Michael. Charles Dickens’s Childhood. London: Macmillan, 1988.
Bodenheimer, Rosemarie. Knowing Dickens. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2007.
Cohen, Jane R. Charles Dickens and His Original Illustrators. Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 1980.
Dickens, Cedric. Dining With Dickens: Being a Ramble Through Dickensian Foods. Goring-on-Thames: Elvedon Press, 1984.
Dickens, Charles Jr. Dickens’s Dictionary of London 1888: An Unconventional Handbook. Devon: Old House Books (facsimile of 1888), 1995.
Fitzgerald, Percy. Bozland: Dickens’ Places and People. Ann Arbor, MI: Gryphon Books, 1971.
Hobsbaum, Philip. A Reader’s Guide to Charles Dickens. London: Thames and Hudson, 1972.
Jones, Richard. Walking Dickensian London. London: New Holland Publishers, Ltd., 2004.
Matz, B. W. Dickensian Inns and Taverns. Bristol: Burleigh, Ltd., 1922.
Mitchell, Sally. Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia. London: Garland Publishing Inc., 1988.
Page, Norman. A Dickens Chronology. Boston: G. K. Hall and Co., 1988.
Rooke, Patrick. The Age of Dickens. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1970.
Smiley, Jane. Dickens. New York: Viking, 2002.
York, Trevor. The Victorian House Explained. Newbury Berkshire: Countryside Books, 2005.
Filmography
For Dickens’s Novels
(films in English, with director, 1920–2008)
Nearly all of Dickens’s novels have been adapted for the screen, and many have been subject to regular updates. A few recommendations from a long list of productions are offered here. The Masterpiece Theatre production of Bleak House (2005) was well received. Classic productions include the 1946 version of Great Expectations, directed by David Lean, and the 1935 version of A Tale of Two Cities, directed by Jack Conway. There is a well-respected 1982 TV miniseries version of Nicholas Nickleby with the Royal Shakespeare Company. The Oscar-winning 1935 version of David Copperfield, directed by George Cukor, and two Oliver Twists, one directed by Renny Rye (1999) and another directed by Roman Polanski (2005), are also recommended. Christine Edzard’s Little Dorrit (1988), Simon Curtis’s David Copperfield (1999), Our Mutual Friend (1998), directed by Julian Farino, and The Pickwick Papers (1952), directed by Noel Langley, are other respected productions.
Little Dorrit (1920) (silent film); director: Sidney Morgan.
Bleak House (1920) (silent film); director: Maurice Elvey.
The Old Curiosity Shop (1921) (silent film); director: Thomas Bentley.
Oliver Twist,