Dickens and the nineteenth century
Charles Dickens – The Stories of His Life – A Review
This review is contributed by Mads Golding, a playwright, writer, and independent scholar who focuses on Charles Dickens and the long 19th century. She is a staff writer for The Dickens Society. Jesper Soerensen’s new book, Charles Dickens: The Stories of His Life (2023), offers...
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...
After Dickens: His Influences in Fiction 1879-1914
This piece is contributed by Tom Hubbard, a former Lynn Wood Neag Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Connecticut and Professeur invité at the University of Grenoble. He has been an Honorary Fellow at the Universities of Edinburgh and Glasgow. Hubbard’s article Heart and...
Dickens isn’t dead. At least, not to begin with. Thoughts on Zadie Smith’s “The Fraud”; A Book Review
This review is contributed by Mads Golding, a playwright, writer, and independent scholar who focuses on Charles Dickens and the long 19th century. She is a staff writer for The Dickens Society. Zadie Smith’s “The Fraud” can be purchased at The Seminary Co-op, Barnes and...
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...
Dickens’s Desk-World of “little familiar objects”
This post was contributed by Pratibha Rai, an interdisciplinary graduate from the University of Oxford. Her research area is in the visual world of literature and the ways in which authors apply material objects, illustration, and their own aesthetic sensibilities to shape meaning in narratives....
Miniature Curiosities, Mighty Considerations
This post is contributed by Anya Eastman, a third-year, Technē funded PhD student at Royal Holloway, University of London. Her thesis explores the posthumous representation of Charles Dickens, George Eliot and Oscar Wilde, with a focus on the relationship between texts and heritage sites. Anya...
“Forget Charles Dickens”: Navigating the Dickensian at The Workhouse, Southwell
This post is contributed by Dr Charlotte May who is a Heritage Learning Officer and Knowledge Exchange Fellow at the University of Nottingham. She specializes in eighteenth and nineteenth-century correspondence and is currently transcribing the letters of the subject of her PhD thesis, Samuel Rogers....
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