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  • Ralph Fiennes Is Charles Dickens In “The Invisible Woman” [TRAILER]

    With the Holiday’s fast approaching, most of will probably watch a version of “A Christmas Carol”, but how much do we know about the man behind the classics, Charles Dickens. With that in mind, you can checkout the trailer for Ralph Fiennes’ “The Invisible Woman”, a film that he also stars in.

    “The Invisible Woman” follows the legendary English writer who enters into an extramarital affair with a young female admirer named Nelly Ternan, played by the very talented Felicity Jones. In the trailer we see that Ternan is a schoolteacher that has fallen madly in love with Dickens, but she is conflicted due to the fact that he wants to keep their romance a secret. You can check it out for yourself below:

    The relationship between Ternan and Dickens was the subject of Claire Tomalin’s book, which the film is based. If you’d like find out a little more about “The Invisible Woman” you can read the official synopsis below:

    “Nelly (Felicity Jones), a happily-married mother and schoolteacher, is haunted by her past. Her memories, provoked by remorse and guilt, take us back in time to follow the story of her relationship with Charles Dickens (Ralph Fiennes) with whom she discovered an exciting but fragile complicity. Dickens — famous, controlling and emotionally isolated within his success — falls for Nelly, who comes from a family of actors. The theatre is a vital arena for Dickens — a brilliant amateur actor – a man more emotionally coherent on the page or on stage, than in life. As Nelly becomes the focus of Dickens’ passion and his muse, for both of them secrecy is the price, and for Nelly a life of “invisibility”.”

    “The Invisible Woman” will open in the States in limited release before releasing wide in the UK in February.

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  • Charles Dickens Google Doodle Celebrates The Author’s 200th Birthday

    Today’s Google Doodle represents one of the Victorian period’s finest novelists with a beautiful representation of some of his best-known characters. Charles Dickens would have been 200 years old today.

    Admittedly a bit stunted on my Dickensian knowledge, I had to consult the Google Book blog to identify many of the characters present in the Doodle. Ebenezer Scrooge and Tiny Tim are front and center, but the Doodle aslo includes Estella and Pip from Great Expectations, Oliver and his friends from Oliver Twist, and Charles Darnay from A Tale of Two Cities.

    Charles Dickens was born in 1812 in Portsea, an area of Portsmouth. His first novel, The Pickwick Papers, was published in serial format, with successive installments appearing each month. Many of his early novels were released in this manner – and Dickens began work on Oliver Twist while in the middle of The Pickwick Papers.

    Over the course of his careers, Dickens penned around two dozen novel, a handful of short stories, poetry, plays, and a bit of nonfiction. His best know novels include Great Expectations, Bleak House, David Copperfield, A Tale of Two Cities, and The Adventures of Oliver Twist.

    The artist of today’s Dickens Doodle is Mike Dutton, a children’s book illustrator who has worked with Google on a number of previous Doodles. Those include Doodle in honor of Richard Scarry, The Royal Wedding, and The World Cup.

    When asked about his experience trying to represent Dickens, Mike said that it posed a greater challenge than most. “Google doodles,” he said, “are intended to be fun and delightful”; however Dickens’ work is frequently serious in tone. So I decided to focus on Dickens’ characters to bridge this gap.”

    Today’s Google Doodle is a bit different from previous Doodles in regards to what happens when you click the image on the homepage. Usually, this will take you to a search pertaining to the Doodle so users can find relevant information about the subject. If you click on the Dickens logo, you are taken to a list of Dickens’ Google ebooks, available for free.

    Dickens has remained popular over the years, but he does have the reputation among some of being a bit stilted, even boring. In a perfect world, everyone could experience Dickens is the proper way. But I guess some will have to settle for an appreciation of the large range of other works and pop culture that was inspired by Dickens’ stories.

    With that, I think we can all thank Dickens for the idea behind this classic gem:

  • Charles Dickens Google Doodle Celebrates The Victorian Era’s Finest

    Charles Dickens Google Doodle Celebrates The Victorian Era’s Finest

    “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness…”

    And with those famous words, every secondary schooler across the globe plunged into the world of Charles Dickens. February 7th is the 200th birthday of one of the world’s best-known writers, and some countries in the East are already celebrating the occasion with a Google Doodle.

    Today, Google’s logo is populated with many of the Victorian-era characters that have endeared the author to so many over the years.

    Charles Dickens was born in 1812 in Portsea, and area of Portsmouth. He penned his first novel, The Pickwick Papers in 1836. Over the course of his life, Dickens wrote around two dozen novels, various short stories, an even some poetry and plays. He is probably best known for the novels The Adventures of Oliver Twist, A Christmas Carol, David Copperfield, Bleak House, A Tale of Two Cities, and Great Expectations.

    Many of his earlier novels were written in a serial format, with each new installment coming every month.

    “He had extraordinary energy and he was extraordinarily hard-working. His first three novels – The Pickwick Papers, Oliver Twist and Nicholas Nickleby – came out in monthly installments. When he was halfway through The Pickwick Papers he started writing Oliver Twist, so each month he was writing two installments of quite different novels. Can you imagine doing that now?” Dickens biographer Claire Romalin told news.com.au.

    Dickens has remained popular through the years, but not everyone (especially in the States) can claim to be major Dickens fans. But to those of you who don’t find Victorian literature all that riveting, just remember that without Dickens, we never would’ve been graced with this Bill Murray performance: