Sailing away with our final speaker of the Symposium, Cathy Waters, who is speaking on “Charles Dickens and George Eliot by the Seaside.” #Dickensociety2026 #GeorgeEliot

Rounding out our wonderful #Dickenssociety2026 panels with Jeremy Parrott discussing Dickens and the application of “Greek principles of order and harmony” to public buildings in London.

Michael D. Lewis and Chris Louttit now shift to Q&A, both having addressed echoes of Dickens in Ali Smith: The Seasonal Quartet offers the “politics of the moment”; Artful gives us a “personal story” & “experience of loss,” in which Oliver Twist is “a form of therapy.” — Louttit #Dickenssociety2026

Now at #DickensSociety2026 Anita Fernandez Young is looking at how characters in Dickens perform for the reader but also for one another - clothes and standards of dress playing a important role

“life becomes illegible outside of capitalism”: Michael D. Lewis on Ali Smith and Dickens. #Dickenssociety2026

Starting the final day of #DickensSociety2026 with Nora Schalkers & Matthias Bauer looking at enlightenment in Dickens

Leon Litvack shared these wonderful handouts examining the emendations in the Oxford Edition of “Our Mutual Friend”

Day 1 begins with an opening from Dominic Rainsford and Dickensian connections to Denmark: Knud Sorensen’s text “Charles Dickens: Linguistic Innovator” (1985) and illustrator, Christian Kongstad Peterson’s wonderful obsession with Dickensian aunts.

🗓✒️ Here are the upcoming deadlines for our Bursaries, Prizes & Awards:

The Dickens Society is thrilled to announce: 'Novel Beginnings: The Charles Dickens Birthday Virtual Conference' on 7th February 2026. The conference is free. Please join us and register for the event using this link to receive a Zoom link for the event: www.eventbrite.com/e/novel-begi...

📞 Calling all authors! See below 👇

For those of you in the UK Midlands, Gerald Dickens is performing ‘A Christmas Carol’ on 22 December. Link below! 🕯️🎄 www.leicestermuseums.org/event-detail...

Birthdays sometimes carry with them great expectations and Dickens’s 21st birthday was no exception. His early hopes of romance were dashed when Maria Beadnell called him a mere ‘boy!’, which possibly served as the inspiration for Estella, one of the most famously frigid young women in literature.

Taught ‘Great Expectations’ before? Consider taking part in this survey for a new volume in the MLA series, ‘Approaches to Teaching World Literature’ edited by Michelle Allen-Emerson and Peter J. Capuano.

Help us welcome TWO new blog editors: Céleste Callen and Mads Golding! Céleste is finishing her PhD on Dickens, Bergson and Time and is teaching at the University of Edinburgh. Mads has completed an MA at Loyola University & will be taking over our media reviews—she is also a play write herself. 🤗

In his two volume biography of Dickens, Edgar Johnson includes several marvelous images of Dickens. How exciting it would have been in 1952 to open vol. 2 and see these! We can forget in the Internet age how treasured these pictures would be and revelatory to see.

The Charles Dickens Letters Project (DickensLetters.com) wishes to fill a vacancy for an Assistant Editor to join a team of scholars committed to developing this vital research resource. For further information, see document below. 👇

Apply to be co-editor of our blog! Communicate with writers, edit one blog submission per month on topics in #Dickens studies, and receive an annual symposium bursary award! More information here: dickenssociety.org/membership

Start planning for the next #Dickens Society Symposium @unibirmingham in the UK! 👉Dates: July 15-18, 2024 🇬🇧 Location: Birmingham, England 🕰️Abstract deadline: 15 JANUARY 2024 🪶Theme: #Dickens, Context, and Co-occurrence Access the CFP here: dickenssociety.org/home