Some topics of related interest that can enhance a student’s knowledge on Charles Dickens are museums and forums centered on Charles Dickens.  These forums and museums are classified as The Charles Dickens Birth Place Museum, The Charles Dickens Internet Forum, and The Charles Dickens Forum.  All of these Internet resources have proven to supply enough sufficient information to allow students and teachers to retain valuable information pertaining to the works and life of Charles Dickens. 

 

The Charles Dickens Birth Place Museum, http://www.charlesdickensbirthplace.co.uk, is an online website containing information about Charles Dickens and on his museum located in England.  This particular website is very helpful because it provides readers with countless information on Dickens early life, his works and their publication dates, information for teachers such as for their lesson plans, a virtual portal of the museum, and a shop where you could buy items pertaining to Charles Dickens.  The items that can be purchased in the gift store are collectables, DVDs, novels, genealogy, etc.  The website also provides numerous teacher references to facilitate their lessons in the classroom.  The website has a part that claims that they will provide teachers with free brochures if they sign up to visit the museum. 

 

The Charles Dickens Internet Forum, http://theinternetforum.info/dickens/index.htm, is an Internet forum and blog site that contains numerous threads on Dickens works.   Each particular thread contains a small section that provides the reader with small helpful information regarding the novels publication date and genre.  Each thread or post contains a different title of Dickens novel’s and works.  You will then see numerous topics posted by different members upon clicking on each different thread.  The pleasant feature about this particular forum is that you have to become a member in order to be able to post and create new threads.  This feature is a positive feature because it does not allow any random individual to post insufficient and invalid information about Charles Dickens and his works.  The forum also narrates and provides a short summary of the works of Charles Dickens in order to provide readers with an idea of what the numerous post deals with.  This forum also allows its members to review other forums from various other authors and novels.

 

The Charles Dickens Forum, http://www.topix.net/forum/who/charles-dickens, is an online forum and message board where individuals can post comments and questions about Charles Dickens and his works.  There are various posts previously created by various individuals regarding some of Dickens works and themes.  This website can be very helpful in numerous ways because students and teachers can post potential problems regarding Dickens, his themes and works, and students can also discuss their in class lessons on Dickens.