Dickens in glass

A nearby town, Vernon, has Dickens Days every year: a holiday celebration loosely organized around a Victorian theme.  Students in my Victorian novel class could get extra credit if they went and could prove it.  (In the interests of anthropology, of course!)  A handful of students went; most brought flyers and a cell-phone or digital camera picture.

One student, though, bought this ornament, allegedly depicting Dickens:

I’m not sure who this is–but it’s not Dickens!