In our fifth and final event for 2016, Associate Professor Jenny Gribble will introduce and discuss A Christmas Carol, written by Charles Dickens in 1843.

Known formally as A Christmas Carol in Prose, Being a Ghost-Story of Christmas, Dickens' novella tells the story of the peevish miser Ebenezer Scrooge, and details his miraculous yuletide transformation. In over 170 years, Dickens' novella has never been out of print - it is one of the most popular and widely read books in human history.

Jenny Gribble is an Honorary Research Associate and former Associate Professor at the University of Sydney. She has written extensively on the writings of Charles Dickens and is the author of The Lady of Shalott in the Victorian Novel (Macmillan, 1983) and Christina Stead (Oxford University Press, 1994), and editor of the Penguin Classics edition of George Eliot’s Scenes of a Clerical Life (1998). Her current research explores intertextuality and biblical references in Dickens.

Suggested Readings

There are no suggested readings for this event, though the full text of A Christmas Carol is available online via the University of Adelaide.

Drinks and light refreshments will be provided.

RSVP essential. Let us know you're coming via our Eventbrite page.

Learn more, and view the series program, on the main series webpage.

Location & Parking

Humanities Research Centre
First Floor, A.D Hope Building
14 Ellery Crescent
Canberra 0200 Australia

The Humanities Research Centre is housed on the first floor of the A.D. Hope Building, located at the top of ANU's Union Court. Map viewable here.

Parking

Limited roadside parking, Ellery Cr (free after 5pm)
School of Music Carpark(s), Childers St (free after 5pm)
Baldessin Precinct Parking Station, Ellery Cr (free after 5:30pm)
School of Art Carpark, Ellery Cr (free after 5pm)
Toad Hall Carpark, Kingsley St (free after 5pm)

There is freely accessible bike parking at both entrances to the A.D. Hope Building.

Complete parking map of ANU campus provided here.