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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...
Nineteenth-century painting of a gentleman having his tooth pulled by a dentist. A dog barks in fright and two customers watch from the doorway

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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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).