Streaming LIVE via YouTube: youtu.be/sfUIJbHtBnU

Charles Dickens was renowned for his lectures, as well as his books. This holiday season, join us for Mr. Dickens’ newest lecture, streamed live from Main Gallery of the Charles River Museum of Industry and Innovation, located in the last boiler house of Francis Cabot Lowell’s first textile mill.

Mr. Dickens, portrayed by educator and Shakespearean actor J.T. Turner, will share historically accurate musings on his life, his work, and his love of Christmas. He will discuss his February 1842 visit to one of the Waltham team’s later mills in Lowell, Massachusetts, and the contrasts with Dickens’ less flattering observations of other parts of America, and with the misery he witnessed in the treatment and experience of England’s working class. It is the latter that, in part, inspired his most beloved work, “A Christmas Carol.”

Dickens will share passages from “A Christmas Carol” and other works to illuminate his life story and philosophies.