DICKENS FELLOWSHIP
NOVELIST’S INTEREST IN ANIMALS Dickens’s animals were the subject of discussion at the fortnightly meeting of the Auckland branch of the Dickens Fellowship last evening. An introductory sketch regarding the interest in animals shown in Dickens’s novels and by him personally was given by Mrs. Kenneth Gordon. This was supplemented by the following readings:—Miss Flite’s birds. Krook’s cat, Boythorne’s canary and Esther’s pony (“Bleak House”), Miss B. D’Authreau; Grip, the raven (“Barnaby Rudge”), Mr. T. Clarkson; Dora’s dog Gyp (‘’David Copperfield”), Mrs. Preston Chambers; the dog Boxer (“Cricket on the Hearth”), Mrs. Gordon; the donkeys (“David Copperfield”), Mr. Preston Chambers; the cabman’s horse (“Pickwick”), Mr. \Y. D. Lusty; Henry Gowan’s dog Lion (“Little Dorrit”), Mrs. Gordon.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 381, 15 June 1928, Page 13
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118DICKENS FELLOWSHIP Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 381, 15 June 1928, Page 13
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