{"id":2238,"date":"2012-02-07T14:58:35","date_gmt":"2012-02-07T20:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/?p=2238"},"modified":"2023-08-06T13:04:08","modified_gmt":"2023-08-06T18:04:08","slug":"dickens-bicentenary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/2012\/02\/07\/dickens-bicentenary\/","title":{"rendered":"Dickens&#8217; bicentenary"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/digital.lib.uiowa.edu\/cdm\/ref\/collection\/uima\/id\/16450\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/files\/2012\/02\/1978_211.jpg\" alt=\"Self portrait with Charles Dickens, by James Louis Steg, 1964 | University of Iowa Museum of Art\" class=\"wp-image-2193\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Self portrait with Charles Dickens, by James Louis Steg, 1964 | University of Iowa Museum of Art<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Today the University will be marking the 200th anniversary of Charles Dickens&#8217; birth with a <a href=\"http:\/\/obermann.uiowa.edu\/events\/dickens-200th-birthday-celebration\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">presentation<\/a> hosted by the Obermann humanities center. Along with lectures on Dickens by UI and community experts, the event will feature selections from the Libraries&#8217; Dickensiana holdings, including some of the correspondence digitized for our Leigh Hunt Letters collection:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/digital.lib.uiowa.edu\/cdm\/search\/collection\/leighhunt\/searchterm\/dickens\/field\/creato\/mode\/all\/conn\/and\/cosuppress\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Charles Dickens correspondence, 1842-1870 | Leigh Hunt Letters<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/digital.lib.uiowa.edu\/cdm\/ref\/collection\/leighhunt\/id\/3835\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/files\/2012\/02\/dickens1.jpg\" alt=\"Charles Dickens letter to Leigh Hunt, May 24, 1844 | Leigh Hunt Letters\" class=\"wp-image-2200\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Charles Dickens letter to Leigh Hunt, May 24, 1844 | Leigh Hunt Letters<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today the University will be marking the 200th anniversary of Charles Dickens&#8217; birth with a presentation hosted by the Obermann humanities center. Along with lectures on Dickens by UI and community experts, the event will feature selections from the Libraries&#8217; Dickensiana holdings, including some of the correspondence digitized for our Leigh Hunt Letters collection: Charles<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/2012\/02\/07\/dickens-bicentenary\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Dickens&#8217; bicentenary&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,12],"tags":[],"syndication":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2238"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2238"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5995,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2238\/revisions\/5995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2238"},{"taxonomy":"syndication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/syndication?post=2238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}