The Friends of Senate House Library - A Christmas Carol reading

Monday 11 December 2017, 18:30 - 21:00
Senate Room, Senate House

Join us for an evening of festivity when Professor Michael Slater MBE will read a condensed version of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol which will last for one hour, before enjoying Christmas-themed refreshments.

Registration fees include festive refreshments, please advise of any dietary requirements when registering.

Michael Slater is Emeritus Professor of Victorian Literature at Birkbeck, University of London, and a Senior Research Fellow of the Institute of English Studies. He is a former Editor of The Dickensian, and a Past President both of the Dickens Fellowship and of the Dickens Society of America. He is also Hon. Academic Adviser to the Trustees of the Charles Dickens Museum. Among his published works are Dickens and Women (1983), Charles Dickens (2009), and an edition for Penguin Classics of Dickens’s A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings (2003). He is currently working on an edition of Dickens’s later uncollected short fiction for OUP’s Clarendon Dickens.

This event is open to the public, however Friends of Senate House Library receive a concessionary rate. Membership to the Friends of Senate House Library is free, please see the website for more information and to join online.