The Dickens Society

Tag: Christmas stories

“Is there no dinner theatre?!”: Little Dickens and a Dickensian Christmas

This post has been contributed by Catherine Quirk (@quirk_catherine), McGill University. Read her previous posts here, here, and here. In December 2019, theatre-goers at Montréal’s Centaur Theatre found themselves exposed to a new kind of Dickensian Christmas. From 19 November to 21 December, “Master Marionette...

Crossing the Borders: Windows and Thresholds in Dickens’s Christmas Stories of the 1840s

This is Part Two of a post contributed by Renata Goroshkova, St. Petersburg State University, Russia. Find Part One here. The concept of the window as a frame through which the artist sees what will be depicted in his work first appeared in the work...

Christmas Music in A Christmas Carol in Prose

This post has been contributed by Renata Goroshkova, St. Petersburg State University, Russia. Read Renata’s other posts here and here. Charles Dickens came to reading age during the blossoming of Romanticism (1, p. 31), and Romantic ideas were the ground on which Charles Dickens was...

The Reception of Charles Dickens’s Christmas Stories of the 1840s in Russia up to 1917

Contributed by Renata Goroshkova, a teaching assistant from St. Petersburg State University, Russia. She is now finishing her dissertation on Dickens’s Christmas stories of the 1840s. Charles Dickens has always been highly popular in Russia. His works appeared in Russia as translated versions or recasts...
The Dickens Society

The purpose of the Dickens Society is to conduct, further, and support research, publication, instruction, and general interest in the life, times, and literature of Charles John Huffam Dickens (1812-1870).