Aberdeen is the chosen location for the 2016 Conference of the International Dickens Fellowship. Find out more information on membership, participation, and sponsorship as posted at the Dickens Museum of London's website . Read the full press release below: Press Release 9.4.2014 Prestigious International Conference coming to AberdeenAberdeen has been selected to host the 2016 conference of … [Read more...]
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Hand Marked Set Tops the News at Ghent
The Research Society for Victorian Periodical's (RSVP) 2015 Conference in Ghent made international news in a number of ways with lectures and papers presented in an awe-inspiring, historical setting. RSVP reports on scholar and bookdealer Jeremy Parrott's presentation of a marked set of All the Year Round with hand-written annotations in the margins, some of which appear to be in Dicken's own … [Read more...]
Call for Papers – 20th Annual Dickens Society Symposium
Liquid Dickens Halifax, Nova Scotia 8-10 July 2015 In 1842, Charles Dickens visited several prominent cities in the United States and British North America. He subsequently published a travelogue, American Notes, detailing his experience in North American society. He arrived in Halifax Harbour in January of 1842, and the fledgling garrison town would be incorporated as the City of Halifax in … [Read more...]
Memorial Wreath-laying at Westminster Abbey
Dr. Sandra Spencer, Secretary of the Denton Dickens Fellowship, will be at Westminster Abbey to lay the wreath commemorating the 144th Anniversary of the death of Charles Dickens. The annual ceremony is preceded by Evensong in the Abbey. Evensong is at 5:00 p.m. (GMT) Assembly for the Wreath-Laying is at 5:45 More information available at the International Dickens Fellowship Website … [Read more...]
Dickens Journals Online Announces a New Literary Journalism Competition
Charles Dickens’s weekly periodicals ushered in an innovative look at Mid-Victorian life in England. In 2012, Dickens Journals Online (DJO) adopted a similar innovation when they introduced an Open Access website devoted to exploring articles in these periodicals. John Drew of the University of Buckingham, where the new journal is housed, remarks that the website is “dedicated to representing … [Read more...]
Loyola University Chicago Hosts International Conference
News Release from Central Dickens Fellowship, Chicago: The Chicago branch of the Dickens Fellowship will host the International Conference at Loyola University's Lakeshore Campus, Wednesday, July 16 through Monday, July 21, 2014. Speakers include: Lillian Nayder, Catherine Dickens biographer Dr. Malcolm Andrews, Emeritus Professor, University of Kent Dr. Jennifer Conary, Assistant … [Read more...]
19th-Century Seminar Opens Doors to Non-Members
The Dickens Universe announces an exciting opportunity for Victorianist faculty and graduate students whose colleges and universities are NOT currently institutional members of the Dickens Project Consortium. The 19th-Century Seminar is a working group of scholars led by two faculty members affiliated with the Dickens Project. Any independent faculty member or graduate student who plans to attend … [Read more...]
A Tale of Two Cities Conference: Papers Published
In January 2013 a two-day conference on Dickens’s 1859 novel of the French Revolution was held at the Ecole Normale Superieure and the Universite de la Sorbonne Nouvelle in Paris. The conference was part funded by the Dickens Fellowship and attended by the then President of the Fellowship, Mark Dickens. The papers presented at that conference have now been published, some in French some in … [Read more...]