Dickens Tourism
Curating Beyond COVID at the Charles Dickens Museum
This post has been contributed by Dr. Katherine Kim, assistant professor at Molloy University in New York. Katherine’s other recent projects have been book chapters and articles on Edgar Allan Poe, Charlotte Brontë’s Villette, and Joseph Sheridan LeFanu’s “Schalken the Painter,” and “Bluebeard.” Her article...
“We’ve gone on holiday by mistake”: Dickens’s journeys to small English towns
This post is contributed by Dr. Katie Bell , co-editor of the Dickens Society Blog. If you have read Pictures from Italy or American Notes, you may have gotten the impression that Dickens was a bit of a grumpy traveller. This is something with which...
“Gather the fragments up so that nothing can be lost”: Charles Dickens, Grannie Herbert and a “run to Redcar”
This post is contributed by our new blog co-editor, Michelle Crowther. Michelle is a Learning and Research Librarian at Canterbury Christ Church University in Kent and also a PhD candidate. She can be found on Twitter at @HumLib_cccu. Dickens was an avid traveller: both before...
Call for Papers for the 26th Annual Dickens Society Symposium, “Dickens in Print.” July 11-14, 2021, Rochester, New York
Given our recent postponement of London 2020, this year’s proposal process will work a little differently. If you were accepted for the 2020 meeting and you wish to propose the same paper, please do so, and you will be accepted again. (Asking you to re-send...
Looking for Walter Landor Dickens
Contributed by Christian Lehmann, Bard High School, Early College On his 52 birthday (7 February, 1864) Charles Dickens received word that his son, Walter Landor, had died in India on 31 December 1863. A few days later Dickens described the circumstances of Walter’s death in...
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