An international conference of scholars will discuss the significance of this rare example of an obscure genre, the “schoolboys’ play,” on September 30 at the Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall Street. The conference, which is free and open to the public...
Early in 1842 , on the eve of his 30th birthday, Charles Dickens made his first trip to America. The author at that time of “Pickwick Papers,” “Oliver Twist,” “Nicholas Nickleby,” and “The Old Curiosity Shop, ” the young novelist was celebrated on both...