Tag: Charles Dickens
Dickens Death Day Event, June 7th 2025
The Dickens Society is delighted to share a call for presentations for an online event entitledDickens and Death, which will be livestreamed on the morning of Saturday, June 7th 2025, andthen will be aired on the Society’s YouTube channel on Dickens’s Death Day (June 9th)....
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...
Escape to the country: Dickens in rural England
This post is contributed by Catherine Peck, a PhD research student in English Literature at the University of Surrey. Her research explores the cultural and social history of the English country cottage and how it is represented in nineteenth-century literature. Her research is supported by...
The David Paroissien Prize
The David Paroissien Prize is awarded each year to the best peer-reviewed essay on Dickens published in a journal or edited collection. The Prize is named for David Paroissien, a founding member of the Dickens Society and also the founder of Dickens Quarterly, which he edited from its...
CFP: Write for The Dickens Society Blog!
The Dickens Society Blog is under new editorship! Dr Katie Bell and Michelle Crowther (not pictured in the illustration above) are looking for engaging submissions from scholars at all career stages on any aspect of Dickensian research. We particularly welcome posts from researchers new to...
The Tell-Tale Sign of the Dickensian Influence: Dickens and Poe
Katie Bell holds a PhD in English from the University of Leicester. She can be found on Twitter https://twitter.com/decadentdickens and on https://www.notions-nineteenth.com/ Dickens’s works are most associated with hearth and home, goodwill to one’s neighbors and the value of conviviality. His more macabre storylines are sometimes...
Call for Blog Co-Editor
The Dickens Society is currently accepting applications for co-editor of our blog. Any interested parties should email their qualifications to Dr. Catherine Quirk at: Quirkc@edgehill.ac.uk The Society is interested in growing the blog to become a more open-source platform for researchers at any stage of...
Tribute to David Paroissien, Long-time DS Member and Former DQ Editor
Tributes and condolences for family and friends can be left by clicking the “Comment” link above, to the right of the date. David Paroissien died peacefully, reading a book at ten in the evening on 8 September 2021, at his home in Oxford....
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...
Call for Posts for the Dickens Society Blog
The Dickens Society Blog is under new editorship! Dr Katie Bell and Katie Holdway are looking for engaging submissions from scholars at all career stages on any aspect of Dickensian research. For the fall/winter term of 2020, we particularly welcome posts from researchers new to...
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