Dickens’s family
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...
“Confess this minute … that you did it to correct and amend me!”: Gaslighting in Dickens’s Novels
This post is contributed by Dr. Katherine J. Kim, assistant professor at Molloy University in New York. Katherine’s other recent projects have been book chapters and articles on Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Dickens, and Catherine Crowe. In the American Dialect Society’s Word of the Year...
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....
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...
Lillian Nayder on the Dickens Society YouTube Channel
Lillian Nayder is Professor of English at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine. She teaches courses on nineteenth-century British fiction, including “Jane Austen: Then and Now,” “The Brontës,” and “Dickens Revised.” Her seminar topics include “The Arctic Sublime” and “Victorian Crime Fiction.” Her research interests center...
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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