{"id":9189,"date":"2012-02-11T09:25:38","date_gmt":"2012-02-11T15:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/?p=9189"},"modified":"2012-06-09T17:25:38","modified_gmt":"2012-06-09T22:25:38","slug":"charles-dickens%e2%80%99-200th-anniversary-celebration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/2012\/02\/11\/charles-dickens%e2%80%99-200th-anniversary-celebration\/","title":{"rendered":"Charles Dickens\u2019 200th Anniversary Celebration"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a> Submitted by:
\nKamshi Kanavathy |<\/p>\n

\u201cNo boys and no donkeys allowed, go away!\u201d and so did David Copperfield\u2019s Aunt Betsey open the 200th Anniversary Celebration of Charles Dickens at the North-West Regional Library in Swan River last night.
\nClick any picture for a larger version.<\/em><\/p>\n

An entertaining and spectacular portrayal of Aunt Betsey was played by Merle Dvorak in a skit derived from the novel. Sharron Carpenter set the scene for the skit by an impressive reading of a short passage from the David Copperfield novel. Dickens himself describes this novel as, \u201ca very complicated interweaving of truth and fiction\u201d. Hence David Copperfield appears to be a biography of some aspects of Dickens\u2019s life.<\/p>\n

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\nCharles Dickens is the most popular 19th century novelist. To set the tone of that period as Charles Dickens perceived it, Gordon Watkins read the opening paragraph of A Tale of Two Cities:
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\n\u201cIt 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, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way–in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.” <\/p>\n

Many in the audience recalled this passage from their school days, which brought back many memories!<\/p>\n

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<\/br>Attendees enjoyed a cup of tea and a glass of punch served with biscuits(cookies).
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\nSpot quiz questions on his novels and characters were asked throughout the evening.
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\nWinners received a balloon covered with birthday wishes to the great writer.
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Submitted by: Kamshi Kanavathy | \u201cNo boys and no donkeys allowed, go away!\u201d and so did David Copperfield\u2019s Aunt Betsey open the 200th Anniversary Celebration of Charles Dickens at the North-West Regional Library in Swan River last night. Click any picture for a larger version. An entertaining and spectacular portrayal of Aunt Betsey was played […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[13,16],"class_list":["post-9189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local","tag-coverage","tag-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}