Tag: Dickens


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...

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....

Dispatches from the 26th Symposium: Charles Dickens and Peter Pitchlynn


Contributed by Spencer Dodd, PhD Student, Louisiana State University. Recent years have seen significant scholarly interest in Dickens and race, a trend continued by the 2021 Virtual Dickens Symposium, which featured multiple papers analyzing Dickens’s works in the context of racial issues. While these papers...

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...

#Dickens150: The First Global Online Gathering for Dickens


This conference report has been contributed by Renata Goroshkova, St. Petersburg State University, Russia. Read her most recent posts here and here. June 9 will definitely go down in the history of Dickens studies since it marked the first online large-scale zoom conference. #Dickens150, organized...

A New Dickensian Venture


“I heard some voices, familiar in my ears I thought” Bleak House, ch. 37 The Dickens Society is excited to announce their latest venture in all things Dickensian, this one carefully curated for your ears, and thus for your walks, commutes, and relaxation. That’s right,...

Steve Weinshel on the Dickens Society YouTube Channel


Steve Weinshel is the maternal great-great-great grandson of Dr. Godfrey Howitt (1800-1873), the younger brother of author William Howitt (1792-1879). Weinshel shares events from the lives of his distant uncle and aunt, William and Mary Botham Howitt, who were Victorian writers, journalists, translators, and adventurers,...

COVID-19 Matching Program


“Mankind was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence, were, all, my business. The deals of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business!”  Charles Dickens, “A Christmas Carol” So far, individuals have contributed a total of $3100...

Into the Dickens-Verse, pt. 2


This is the second part of Christian Lehmann’s analysis of how Into the Spider-Verse engages with Great Expectations. To read part one, click here. When we left off last time, we had set up a number of ways in which Great Expectations appears throughout Spider-Verse. In this installment,...