Dutch Connections

Haren (click the spot on Groningen)

In Haren the public library is in possession of a special Dickens colletion which is housed in a Victorian period room called the Dickens Room.

Leeuwarden / Ljouwert (click  the spot on Friesland)

Almost certain the only place in the world where you can find a Dickens’ novel translated into Frisian (Frysk)

Deventer (click the spot on Overijssel)

Every year during Christmas time there is a Dickens street festival (Dickens Festijn) in Deventer.

Braamt (click the spot on Gelderland)

There is also a lovely small Dickens Museum in the amusement park Het Land van Jan Klaassen, Braamt. Originally it was situated in Bronkhorst, the smallest city in The Netherlands.

Overveen (click the spot on the middle of Noord-Holland)

The charter of the Haarlem Branch of the Dickensfellowship can be seen on the wall in restaurant “Kraantje Lek” (on the wall on the left-hand side of the staircase).

Laren (click the spot on the south-eastern region of Noord-Holland above Utrecht)

In this theatre in Victorian style the audience can see how Charles Dickens held his famous public readings, original glass plates are shown by means of the magic lantern.

Dordrecht (click the spot on Zuid-Holland)

Dordrecht is the birth-place of the 19th century painter Ary Scheffer. He painted a portret of Charles Dickens while he stayed in Paris. In the Dordrechts Museum a number of paintings of this romantic painter are on display.