“There are some places here,—oh Heav­en how fine! I wish you could see the tower of the Palaz­zo Vecchio as it lies be­fore me at this mo­ment, on the op­posite bank of the Arno! But I will tell you more about it, and about all Flor­ence, from my shady arm-chair up among the Peschiere oran­ges.”

Char­les Di­ckens to John Forst­er, 2 April 1845. From Flor­ence.

The Di­ckens Society Blog aims at dis­seminat­ing Di­cken­sian re­search both amongst the Society’s mem­bership and to the larg­er academic com­mun­ity. We wel­come on­go­ing sub­miss­ions from re­search­ers at any care­er level on any topic re­lat­ing to Di­ckens’s life, work, or world – if you would like to sub­mit a post on a forthcom­ing pub­lica­tion, an ex­ist­ing pro­ject or a think-piece on any topic, please get in touch.

As we start to look for­ward to the 23^rd Di­ckens Society Sym­posium to be held 30 July – 1 August 2018 in Tübing­en, Ger­many (see here for more in­for­ma­tion), the Di­ckens Society Blog also wel­comes tar­geted sub­miss­ions of 800-1200 words on topics re­lat­ing to In­ter­nation­al Di­ckens. Sug­gested topics in­clude but are not li­mited to:

• International settings in Dickens’s novels
• Dickens’s own travels and travel writing
• Reception, translation, and adaptation of Dickens and his works outside of England – both in his lifetime and today

Posts will be ac­cepted up to 15 April 2018, to be post­ed bet­ween now and the end of April. A new topic will be pro­posed for the months of May to August.