Leatherhead
Decorative & Fine Arts Society
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DateLecture
08/03/2012Dickens Revisited 1812-2010
11/04/2012Painters of Myths and Dreams: England’s Late Pre Raphaelites
09/05/2012John Opei, The Cornish Wonder
13/06/2012The Giants of High Tech Architecture: Roger, Foster and Grimshaw
11/07/2012Everyone Stops For Tea! A Social History of Tea drinking
12/09/2012The Boy Who Bit Picasso
10/10/2012The Splendour of Hampton Court Palace - including restoration and gardens
14/11/2012Gwen and Augustus John - two great opposites
12/12/2012Christmas Dinner Edward I to Edward VII
09/01/2013'The Sincerest Form of Flattery' - great images and those who borrow them
13/02/2013Wallis Simpson - That Woman - Duchess of Style
13/03/2013The New Ashmolean Museum and its Classical Collection

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Dickens Revisited 1812-2010

08/03/2012 Jane Tapley Charles John Huffham Dickens (1812-1870) was born in Portsmouth, son of a pay clerk in the Navy office. His memories of working aged 12 in a blacking warehouse, when his father was imprisoned for debt, were the inspiration for much of his fiction. He captured the popular imagination as no other novelist has done and was admired by Queen Victoria and Dostoevsky, who read David Copperfield and Pickwick Papers while he was in Omsk prison. Both writers share an interest in major subjects such as the city, children, crime and the suffering of the innocent. _______________________________________________________ Jane Tapley is the Special Events Organiser at the Theatre Royal Bath where she has worked for the past 20 years. She frequently interviews visiting actors, writers and directors. She lectures regularly to theatre going societies, NT and History and Fine Arts groups. She is also a Blue Badge Guide/Lecturer, Freelance Author and Researcher, Home Economist and Theatrical Landlady.