A final reminder for those who wish to join us tomorrow! 📚

📢 New on our blog, The Cricket: 'Celebrating the Birthday of the Inimitable through UCSC's Dickens Day of Writing' ✍️🏻 www.dickenssociety.org/the-cricket/...

Join us on on Saturday, February 7th, for our free virtual birthday conference! ✍️🏻📅 You can read about it on our blog, The Cricket: www.dickenssociety.org/the-cricket/... Please register via Eventbrite to receive a zoom link the week of the conference: www.eventbrite.com/e/novel-begi...

This Saturday, join us for a wonderful free online conference celebrating Dickens's birthday: www.dickenssociety.org/the-cricket/...

The Robert B. Partlow, Jr. Prize is named in honor of Robert Partlow (1919-1997), one of the founding members of The Dickens Society. Submit a CV and a completed paper to Symposium Organizer, Dominic Rainsford ([email protected]) by 15 April 2026 www.dickenssociety.org/prizes-awards

The deadline for the David Paroissien Prize is approaching! To nominate an essay, please send the required materials to the Society Secretary at [email protected] by 31 January 2026. More information here: www.dickenssociety.org/prizes-awards

The deadline for the David Paroissien Prize is approaching! To nominate an essay, please send the required materials to the Society Secretary at [email protected] by 31 January 2026. More information here: www.dickenssociety.org/prizes-awards

📞 Calling all authors! See below 👇

Join us on on Saturday, February 7th, for our free virtual birthday conference! ✍️🏻📅 You can read about it on our blog, The Cricket: www.dickenssociety.org/the-cricket/... Please register via Eventbrite to receive a zoom link the week of the conference: www.eventbrite.com/e/novel-begi...

Don't forget to register to attend our free virtual conference on 7th February: www.eventbrite.com/e/novel-begi...

I love a bit of literary tourism - visiting places I know from stories in books and films. So what a joy it was to talk to Lee Jackson about #Dickensland! Join us for the start of the new season of #LifeandLanguage @victorianlondon.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/0aB3...

The deadline for our upcoming symposium 'Thinking Dickens' (Aarhus University, Denmark - 13-16th July 2026) is approaching! Don't forget to send your proposals to [email protected] by 4th January 📝 & read the Call for Papers here: www.dickenssociety.org/symposium

Sara Malton, our Vice President, gave a fascinating interview on ABC Syracuse about A Christmas Carol. Watch it here: youtu.be/Bitie0-BSWU?...

The Dickens Society is thrilled to announce: 'Novel Beginnings: The Charles Dickens Birthday Virtual Conference' on 7th February 2026. The conference is free. Please join us and register for the event using this link to receive a Zoom link for the event: www.eventbrite.com/e/novel-begi...

CfP for VPFA's 18th Annual Conference is now live and the topic is 'Victorians and their Publics'. To read the CfP and full submission guidelines online, please head to: victorianpopularfiction.org/vpfa-annual-....

Considering coming to one of our summer symposiums? Read about our 2025 Boston Symposium below from Emma Linford and get ✨inspired✨ for Aarhus 2026! 🌎 dickenssociety.org/archives/4808

📞 Calling all authors! See below 👇

Read our tribute to Jerome Meckier, written by Andre DeCuir, here.

Dickens Day is coming up! 11 Oct at Senate House, London on the theme of 'Dickens and Art'. You can register for the day at the IES website here: ies.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

We are currently seeking submissions for the 2026 NeMLA panel “(Re)generating Dickens Studies” on social media. Link is here: cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S...

Lydia Craig presents her discovery of a series of poems by Kate Perugini in the ‘Pall Mall Magazine’ that provide new evidence of her knowledge of a legacy-threatening secret about Dickens’s life. @dickenssociety.bsky.social @dickensfellowhq.bsky.social @rs4vp.org

Now @drchrislouttit.bsky.social looking at the Neo-Victorian Twists and Turns of The Artful Dodger (2023) #DickensSociety2025 #Artfuldodger

From Mud to Make-up - Ben Moore looking at Bleak House and at The Bondwoman‘s Narrative by Hannah Crafts #DickensSociety2025

Congratulations, Natalie and thank you for your service!

Looking forward to talking about Disney+'s The Artful Dodger again at this year's Dickens Symposium. Curious to find out what Dickensians think of it! #DickensSociety2025

Now @aa42.bsky.social is sharing his experience as a data scientist using the beginning of A Tale of Two Cities to teach human ecology - and how to look at data in a nuanced way #DickensSociety2025 Dickens is more relevant than ever 👇

At #DickensSociety2025 Joel Brattin is telling us about the challenges of choosing a copytext for A Tale of Two Cities

Dickens Society Presidents: past, present & future 🙂 #DickensSociety2025 @gongdonkey.bsky.social @drchrislouttit.bsky.social

In her talk on Dickens, Physiognomy, and the Dirty-Faced Figure, the brilliant Lillian Nayder looks at the distribution of the word dirty-faced across texts. Dirt on the face can become part of the embodied self. #DickensSociety2025

I am shocked to hear this very sad news. Dickensians around the globe will miss Simon enormously. Such a wonderful scholar and a lovely man. @dickenssociety.bsky.social @dickensfellowhq.bsky.social

Off we go! Natalie McKnight and @drchrislouttit.bsky.social opening this year‘s @dickenssociety.bsky.social Symposium in Boston

First up: Jennifer Heine on Dickens & Wax-Works @dickenssociety.bsky.social

Now Clair Schwarz on The Dickens Fragrance Collection #DickensSociety2025 @dickenssociety.bsky.social

Now: James Armstrong on Dirt and Discomfort - Theatrical audiences in Dickens #DickensSociety2025 @dickenssociety.bsky.social

Leslie Simon raising interesting questions about how to measure story time to find out why we tend to forget endings of novels rather than their beginnings - All happening at #DickensSociety2025 @dickenssociety.bsky.social

Ed Guiliano introducing Bob Patten with suitably Dickensian flourishes before beginning his interview with him @dickenssociety.bsky.social symposium, Boston University

Location, dates and theme for next year’s Dickens Society Symposium are announced. Let’s avoid a clash with @dickensfellowhq.bsky.social next year! @dickenssociety.bsky.social

At the Dickens Dinner the wonderful Natalie McKnight received the Diana Archibald award for service 🎉 Here with Diana & @drchrislouttit.bsky.social #DickensSociety2025 @dickenssociety.bsky.social

We are currently inviting submissions for our hybrid panel at the 57th NeMLA convention, which takes as its theme the concept of “(Re)generation.” This event, which utilizes the conference app Whova and Zoom, will be held March 5-8, 2026. More info here: cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S...

Join us for a ✨free✨ virtual mini conference on Dickens’s death-day, 7 June. Three speakers will discuss the motif of death present in works of Dickens. Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/dickens-de...

Call for presentations for an online event, Dickens and Death! This will be livestreamed on June 7 and then posted on our YouTube channel June 9. Proposals should center on the theme of Dickens and Death. Submit proposals of 100-200 words by May 1, 2025 to Céleste Callen: [email protected].

As we progress into 2025, let us try to take Dickens’s approach to the New Year as a time for regeneration and working to become our better selves. New on the blog: dickenssociety.org/archives/4701

Join the link for a live reading of “A Christmas Carol” going on now! www.youtube.com/live/JqcA85X...

For those of you in the UK Midlands, Gerald Dickens is performing ‘A Christmas Carol’ on 22 December. Link below! 🕯️🎄 www.leicestermuseums.org/event-detail...

As the holidays approach, we are looking for prospective writers for our blog. Email ideas or proposals to Katie Bell at doctorkatiebell [at] gmail [dot] com. 🕯️

Happy Halloween (or Samhain)! For a festive holiday read, here is “The Ghost and Mr. Dickens.” Judge for yourself if Dickens was haunted or not. 👻 dickenssociety.org/archives/4679

Fresh book review is up on the blog: “Charles Dickens—The Stories of His Life” by Jesper Soerensen dickenssociety.org/archives/4650

New on the blog: “From Bleak House to Birmingham: New Perspectives on Dickens at the 29th Annual Symposium” dickenssociety.org/archives/4570

New #blog post is up: “After Dickens: His Influences in Fiction 1879-1914.” The post discusses authors HG Wells, Israel Zangwell, George Gissing and more! dickenssociety.org/archives/4506

New on the blog today, @debsiddoway.bsky.social discusses her visit to the National Theatre to see “London Tide”, an adaptation of “Our Mutual Friend.” dickenssociety.org/archives/4421