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....
Miniature Curiosities, Mighty Considerations
This post is contributed by Anya Eastman, a third-year, Technē funded PhD student at Royal Holloway, University of London. Her thesis explores the posthumous representation of Charles Dickens, George Eliot and Oscar Wilde, with a focus on the relationship between texts and heritage sites. Anya...
“Forget Charles Dickens”: Navigating the Dickensian at The Workhouse, Southwell
This post is contributed by Dr Charlotte May who is a Heritage Learning Officer and Knowledge Exchange Fellow at the University of Nottingham. She specializes in eighteenth and nineteenth-century correspondence and is currently transcribing the letters of the subject of her PhD thesis, Samuel Rogers....
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...
Call for Bursary Applications: Dickens Under Glass (Rochester, NY)
The Dickens Society annually provides bursaries to support the scholarly development of graduate students, independent scholars, and untenured faculty. For our Symposium in Rochester, NY this year, we will be offering bursaries for various social media responsibilities and assistance during the event. We will be...
“where the things that might have been, and never were, are always wandering:” The Fireside and Subjectivity
This post was contributed by Céleste Callen, a PhD student at The University of Edinburgh. Her doctoral research focuses on time and subjective temporal experience in Dickens’s fiction, by reading his fiction through the lens of Henri Bergson’s philosophy. She can be found on Twitter...
The Bleak Old Shop of Stuff—TV Christmas Special Review
This post is contributed by Mads Golding. Mads is a playwright and writer currently pursuing an MA in English literature at Loyola University, Chicago. Her research interests include Dickens, Shakespeare, and theater. Mads currently serves as a member of the communications committee for The Dickens...
Deep Impressions: Dickens’s Encounters with Houselessness
This post has been contributed by Dr. Trish Bredar, a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities at Northwestern University. Her research focuses on representations of physical mobility in British literature of the long nineteenth century, with particular interests in gender, walking,...
Charles Dickens’s Unwitting Victory over American Literary Pirates
This post was contributed by Dr. Adam Epp. Adam recently completed his PhD on Charles Dickens’s brand at the University of Saskatchewan. He is currently studying Dickens’s brand in Canada and is aiming to publish an article about Dickens and debtors’ prisons. Adam can be reached...
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