Dickens and Periodicals
Dental Afterlives: Dickens and Victorian Dentistry
This post is contributed by Eleanor C. Faulkner, PhD student in the department of English and Drama at Queen Mary University, London. Our culture has inherited unsavoury dental practitioners. These include those pilloried by Charlie Chaplin’s silent film ‘Laughing Gas’ (1914), the films Marathon Man...
Dickens Possibly Influenced “Sweeney Todd”
By Herb Moskovitz. Reprinted with kind permission of the author and David Perdue’s The Charles Dickens Page. In Philadelphia there is a wonderful walk-through exhibit of A Christmas Carol in Macy’s on Market Street. There are three-dimensional tableaus of scenes from the classic story and in the...
Into the Dickens-Verse
This post has been contributed by Christian Lehmann, Bard High School Early College, Cleveland. Read his previous contribution here. On January 16th 2019 I wrote a Twitter thread about Great Expectations in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. I am grateful for the Dickens Society communications team...
Don’t miss Jeremy Parrott on the Dickens Society YouTube Channel
In the newest Dickens film on our YouTube channel, Dr. Jeremy Parrott (Honorary Research Fellow, University of Buckingham) describes his process of establishing the authorship and writing the biographies of formerly unknown or obscure contributors to Charles Dickens’s periodical All the Year Round. After famously...
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