Wednesday, August 3, 2011

Dickens festival.


The Dickens festival is celebrated on the first week in June. It celebrates the works of this brilliant writer. The Dickens Fellowship Society http://www.dickensfellowship.org/ which has branches throughout the world and many others join in this festival. If you go to the site above you will find many interesting facts about Dickens.It is an easy to follow site and one that many historians might well enjoy. For those who love Dickens writing it explains how one can join this society.
Many who come to this festival dress up in Victorian attire and walk through historic Rochester transporting any who come back to that period of time. You will see people dressed up as Scrooge and Oliver Twist, I hope you bring something to put in the poor chap's bowl. Maybe even Miss Havisham will be there perhaps a young man might not be after her money but more for the fact of the love of this fair maiden and her love of history.
As you walk along the streets wondering and pondering if you have perhaps been transported back in time you will pass Victorian shops and craft stalls.
Mr. Pickwick himself arrives by train and starts this parade along the Rochester High Street towards the Norman Castle. I wonder what the Normans would think of such gaiety.
I will have to say once again I would love to bring my family here on this day to dress up and be a part of the new history of Dickens would be such a blessing and such a captured of time for me.
Well as we close on one part of Dickens.
Let's not forget that this man brought hardship of his life into the rich peoples' lives in book form and let's hope that in his writing he changed them to help others.
Write it on your calendar June 8-10, 2012 is when you yourself can experience the Dickens Festival.
Wishing you lots of Tasty English Delights
There's always room for one more.

No comments:

Post a Comment