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Dickens on Screen: Dickens Society Online Event — The Dickens Society Call for Papers

New on the Blog 📢 Our Call for Papers for the upcoming Dickens on Screen online event! Mark your calendars and send your proposals by May 11th 📆 www.dickenssociety.org/the-cricket/...

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

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Don't forget to submit a CV and a completed paper to Symposium Organizer, Dominic Rainsford (dominic.rainsford@cc.au.dk) by 15 April 2026 for The Robert B. Partlow, Jr. Prize www.dickenssociety.org/prizes-awards

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Between the Lines: Dickens comes to Barnet! 🎭📖

The Blue Door Theatre Company dive into the fascinating life of Charles Dickens with their usual flair of irreverence, pithiness and invention. April 23rd - 25th at The Bull Theatre.

Get your tickets here:

www.ticketsource.co.uk/thebulltheat...

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The deadline for The Robert B. Partlow, Jr. Prize is 15 April 2026! Read more about it here:

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A final reminder for those who wish to join us tomorrow! 📚

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Celebrating the Birthday of the Inimitable through UCSC’s Dickens Day of Writing — The Dickens Society By Katie Bell Katie is a high school English teacher in Georgia, USA, and the senior blog editor of The Cricket. Her PhD, on the influence of Dickens’s works on authors writing in the American South...

📢 New on our blog, The Cricket: 'Celebrating the Birthday of the Inimitable through UCSC's Dickens Day of Writing' ✍️🏻

www.dickenssociety.org/the-cricket/...

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Novel Beginnings: Charles Dickens Birthday Virtual Conference — The Dickens Society Following the success of the virtual memorial conference, ‘Dickens and Death’, the Dickens Society is pleased to announce another virtual conference; ‘Novel Beginnings; Charles Dickens Birthday Virtua...

Join us on on Saturday, February 7th, for our free virtual birthday conference! ✍️🏻📅 You can read about it on our blog, The Cricket: www.dickenssociety.org/the-cricket/...

Please register via Eventbrite to receive a zoom link the week of the conference: www.eventbrite.com/e/novel-begi...

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Novel Beginnings: Charles Dickens Birthday Virtual Conference — The Dickens Society Following the success of the virtual memorial conference, ‘Dickens and Death’, the Dickens Society is pleased to announce another virtual conference; ‘Novel Beginnings; Charles Dickens Birthday Virtua...

This Saturday, join us for a wonderful free online conference celebrating Dickens's birthday: www.dickenssociety.org/the-cricket/...

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Prizes & Awards — The Dickens Society

The Robert B. Partlow, Jr. Prize is named in honor of Robert Partlow (1919-1997), one of the founding members of The Dickens Society. Submit a CV and a completed paper to Symposium Organizer, Dominic Rainsford (dominic.rainsford@cc.au.dk) by 15 April 2026 www.dickenssociety.org/prizes-awards

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Prizes & Awards — The Dickens Society

The deadline for the David Paroissien Prize is approaching! To nominate an essay, please send the required materials to the Society Secretary at dickenssocietysecretary@gmail.com by 31 January 2026. More information here: www.dickenssociety.org/prizes-awards

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Prizes & Awards — The Dickens Society

The deadline for the David Paroissien Prize is approaching! To nominate an essay, please send the required materials to the Society Secretary at dickenssocietysecretary@gmail.com by 31 January 2026. More information here: www.dickenssociety.org/prizes-awards

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Call for authors working on any aspect of the 19th century in connection with Charles Dickens for the Dickens Society Blog, the Cricket. Send submissions to doctorkatiebell@gmail.com and drcelestecallen@gmail.com

Call for authors working on any aspect of the 19th century in connection with Charles Dickens for the Dickens Society Blog, the Cricket. Send submissions to doctorkatiebell@gmail.com and drcelestecallen@gmail.com

📞 Calling all authors! See below 👇

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Novel Beginnings: Charles Dickens Birthday Virtual Conference — The Dickens Society Following the success of the virtual memorial conference, ‘Dickens and Death’, the Dickens Society is pleased to announce another virtual conference; ‘Novel Beginnings; Charles Dickens Birthday Virtua...

Join us on on Saturday, February 7th, for our free virtual birthday conference! ✍️🏻📅 You can read about it on our blog, The Cricket: www.dickenssociety.org/the-cricket/...

Please register via Eventbrite to receive a zoom link the week of the conference: www.eventbrite.com/e/novel-begi...

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Don't forget to register to attend our free virtual conference on 7th February: www.eventbrite.com/e/novel-begi...

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I love a bit of literary tourism - visiting places I know from stories in books and films. So what a joy it was to talk to Lee Jackson about #Dickensland!
Join us for the start of the new season of #LifeandLanguage
@victorianlondon.bsky.social
open.spotify.com/episode/0aB3...

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Symposium — The Dickens Society

The deadline for our upcoming symposium 'Thinking Dickens' (Aarhus University, Denmark - 13-16th July 2026) is approaching! Don't forget to send your proposals to dickens2026@cc.au.dk by 4th January 📝 & read the Call for Papers here: www.dickenssociety.org/symposium

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CNY Haunts Episode 6 Dickens Christmas Spirits YouTube video by NewsChannel 9 WSYR Syracuse

Sara Malton, our Vice President, gave a fascinating interview on ABC Syracuse about A Christmas Carol. Watch it here: youtu.be/Bitie0-BSWU?...

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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...

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CfP for VPFA's 18th Annual Conference is now live and the topic is 'Victorians and their Publics'. To read the CfP and full submission guidelines online, please head to: victorianpopularfiction.org/vpfa-annual-....

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As articles on any aspect of the 19th c relating to Dickens are welcome, that would include the novels, short stories, & articles, too. 🙂

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From Hull to Boston: My Journey to the Dickens Symposium – The Dickens Society

Considering coming to one of our summer symposiums? Read about our 2025 Boston Symposium below from Emma Linford and get ✨inspired✨ for Aarhus 2026! 🌎
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Call for authors working on any aspect of the 19th century in connection with Charles Dickens for the Dickens Society Blog, the Cricket. Send submissions to doctorkatiebell@gmail.com and drcelestecallen@gmail.com

Call for authors working on any aspect of the 19th century in connection with Charles Dickens for the Dickens Society Blog, the Cricket. Send submissions to doctorkatiebell@gmail.com and drcelestecallen@gmail.com

📞 Calling all authors! See below 👇

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In Memory of Jerome Meckier – The Dickens Society

Read our tribute to Jerome Meckier, written by Andre DeCuir, here.

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Dickens Day 2025 - ‘Dickens and Art’

Dickens Day is coming up! 11 Oct at Senate House, London on the theme of 'Dickens and Art'. You can register for the day at the IES website here: ies.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

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We are currently seeking submissions for the 2026 NeMLA panel “(Re)generating Dickens Studies” on social media. Link is here: cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S...

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Lydia Craig presents her discovery of a series of poems by Kate Perugini in the ‘Pall Mall Magazine’ that provide new evidence of her knowledge of a legacy-threatening secret about Dickens’s life. @dickenssociety.bsky.social @dickensfellowhq.bsky.social @rs4vp.org

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Now @drchrislouttit.bsky.social looking at the Neo-Victorian Twists and Turns of The Artful Dodger (2023)
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From Mud to Make-up - Ben Moore looking at Bleak House and at The Bondwoman‘s Narrative by Hannah Crafts
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