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

Fresh blog post is up about how user-friendly @CLiC_fiction can be! dickenssociety.org/archives/4386

New blog post is up by sculptor David Clement Davies about the artistic process of creating a jug inspired by “A Christmas Carol.” dickenssociety.org/archives/4335

Delighted to share our new YouTube video of artist Gerry Mooney, creating his linoleum cutting illustrations for “Bleak House”! youtu.be/wd_80NIiuEI?...

Fresh new blog post is up: “Those ‘Dark Spirits’ Within Us: Interpretive Power & the Legacy of Fandom”, which delves into the wonderful Miss Wade of “Little Dorrit”. dickenssociety.org/archives/4310

“Dickens isn’t dead. At least, not to begin with. Thoughts on Zadie Smith’s ‘The Fraud’ A Book Review” dickenssociety.org/archives/4257

Check out the upcoming online symposium on 17 May 2024 at Durham University entitled "Charles Dickens: Beyond Realism for the Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies International." Attendance is free! durham.ac.uk/research/insti….

Birthdays sometimes carry with them great expectations and Dickens’s 21st birthday was no exception. His early hopes of romance were dashed when Maria Beadnell called him a mere ‘boy!’, which possibly served as the inspiration for Estella, one of the most famously frigid young women in literature.

We have a new blog post up about Dickens and the 🧚🏻‍♀️fantasy🧚🏻‍♀️ genre: “Through the Coffee-Room Glass: Dickens and the Origins of Modern Fantasy” dickenssociety.org/archives/4119

The brilliant Caroline Radcliffe will treat us to a 'Dickens & Collins' exhibition at July's @dickenssociety.bsky.social symposium in Brum! For a preview of the treasures from our Cadbury Library see blog.bham.ac.uk/clic-dickens... ❗Submit your abstract for #Dickens2024 ⏱️ Deadline: 22 Jan 2024

Don't forget to get in your abstract for the @dickenssociety.bsky.social Symposium 2024 that we will hold in this beautiful location from 15 to 18 July 2024 ⏱️ Deadline for abstracts: 15 Jan 2024 🔗 dickenssociety.org/home

We have a new blog post up all about our last conference in Rochester, NY! If you’re considering attending our conference this year in Birmingham, UK (we hope you are!), give this a read to see about our adventures together! dickenssociety.org/archives/4106

We have a ✨new✨ staff writer who reviewed The Goodman Theatre’s production of “A Christmas Carol” in Chicago. Read about it here 👉 dickenssociety.org/archives/4186 #theater #theaterreview #AChristmasCarol

Happy Holidays! "Looking to get into the festive spirit at no cost? How about getting cozy, curling up, and immersing into a dynamic reading of Charles Dickens’ beloved classic, A Christmas Carol, performed by acclaimed author Neil Gaiman @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com?" goodereader.com/blog/electro...

Dickens didn't describe the Ghosts of Christmases Past, Present and To Come as Victorian ghosts the way he did Marley — but what kind of fairies were they? Joshua Gibbs investigates the fairy origins in A Christmas Carol, new in Dickens Quarterly https://ow.ly/Tjmt50QkK9s

Time for a new episode on Dickens! I'm talking to @peteorford.bsky.social about lived experience and literary examples Join us for a listen! 🎧 #LifeandLanguage podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mic...