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LONDON: Unpublished sketches that bring Charles Dickens’s “world and character to life” have gone on display for the first time, dpa reported.
A one-off set of pen, ink and watercolour sketches of the English playwright can be seen at the Charles Dickens Museum in London until Sept 21.
The sketches show Dickens and his theatre company in the midst of rehearsals for stage productions, including Dickens’s “Mr Nightingale’s Diary” and “The Frozen Deep”.
They also depict his friend Mark Lemon, the former editor of Punch magazine; his eldest daughter Mamie Dickens; and Victorian playwright and novelist Wilkie Collins, who is best known for writing “The Woman In White” and for collaborating with Dickens to write the play “The Frozen Deep”.
The informal sketches, newly acquired by the museum, were made in 1855 and 1857 by Nathaniel Powell, Dickens’s next-door neighbour in Tavistock Square in Bloomsbury, London.
Powell, recalling the time he was invited next door to make the sketches, wrote: “We were invited by Mr and Mrs Dickens to attend theatrical performances at their house. They were intensely interesting on account of the cast, the staging and the audiences.
“The most important piece was ‘The Frozen Deep’, in which Dickens, Wilkie Collins and Mark Lemon took part. You will find rough sketches of the characters in my 1857 sketchbook.”
One sketch will join the museum’s current exhibition “Showtime!”, which runs until January, and the remaining sketches will be on display in the study where Dickens wrote “Oliver Twist,” “Nicholas Nickleby” and “The Pickwick Papers”.
Frankie Kubicki, director of the Charles Dickens Museum, said: “Far removed from the many polished images of Dickens in performance, these are the only known immediate ‘snapshots’ of Dickens in rehearsal, capturing moments of staging, costuming, and performing unrecorded elsewhere.
“This is a window into one of the enduring passions of Dickens’s life – performing. These vivid sketches give us an enticing and intimate glimpse of the productions staged by him and the friends and family within his theatre group.
“They are full of the frenetic energy for which Dickens was renowned, and bring his world and character to life in a way we haven’t quite seen before.”
Dickens and his family moved into Tavistock House, now the Charles Dickens Museum, in 1851 and lived there for nine years. There, he wrote several of his most celebrated novels including “Bleak House”, “Hard Times”, “Little Dorrit”, and “A Tale Of Two Cities”.
The Charles Dickens Museum is the only house in which Dickens lived in London that survives.
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