By Kevin Grace
This month marks the 200th birthday of Charles Dickens, a man who once remarked on an 1842 visit to Cincinnati that the Irish marchers in a temperance parade behaved quite nicely. Of course, that visit was in January so the St. Patrick’s Day parade was still two months away. Dickens’ bicentennial is February 7, and throughout the month the Archives & Rare Books Library will be commemorating this notable event. “Why?” is the question we hear being whispered across campus. It is because ARB holds a very fine collection of Dickens – Dickens in parts, Dickens first editions in single and multiple volumes, Dickens in collected works, Dickens, Dickens, Dickens. It is the Dickens, we say. Continue reading