The NSW Dickens Society Newsletter is published 6 times a year, immediately prior to meetings and the Christmas lunch. It is titled “Household Words” in recognition of Charles Dickens’ journal of the same name – published every week from 1850 through 1859, and great value at only 2d! Dickens, in his turn, had borrowed the phrase from the “St Crispin’s Day” speech in Shakespeare’s “Henry V”:
then shall our names.
Familiar in his mouth as household words
Harry the king, Bedford and Exeter,
Warwick and Talbot, Salisbury and Gloucester,
Be in their flowing cups freshly remember’d.
