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Dickens and his Contemporaries

The Ghost and Mr. Dickens

This post is contributed by Katie Bell, senior editor of the Dickens Society blog. Her PhD is from the University of Leicester, and she currently researches Dickens and the paranormal. She has contributed several other pieces to the blog, is a high school teacher near...

From Bleak House to Birmingham: New Perspectives on Dickens at the 29th Annual Symposium

This post was contributed by Dean J. Hill, recipient of the Robert J. Partlow, Jr. Prize at the 2024 Dickens Society Symposium and a postgraduate research student at the University of Birmingham. The Best of Times: A Dickensian Gathering in Birmingham As scholars and literary...

Georgina Hogarth and Annie Adams Fields: Dickens’s most trusted female friends

This post is contributed by Christine Skelton: Emeritus Professor, University of Birmingham, U.K. Her book, “Charles Dickens and Georgina Hogarth: a curious and enduring relationship” is published by Manchester University Press, and was released in April 2023. Charles Dickens had several women friends but the...
The Dickens Society

The purpose of the Dickens Society is to conduct, further, and support research, publication, instruction, and general interest in the life, times, and literature of Charles John Huffam Dickens (1812-1870).