Dickens in Print


Literary Explorations are Just a CLiC Away! Dr Michaela Mahlberg on the CLiC Dickens Project


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. Dr. Michaela Mahlberg spoke at the 28th annual Dickens Society Conference to announce...

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...

The Use of Dickens in Popular Fiction: ‘Spirited’ by Julie Cohen


By Deborah Siddoway The ‘making of fiction is an inseparable part of his being.’ So said Peter Ackroyd of Dickens in his 1990 biography of the inimitable author. [1] And as we now commemorate the life of Dickens in the 150th year since his death,...

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...