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:
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
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...
The deadline for The Robert B. Partlow, Jr. Prize is 15 April 2026! Read more about it here:
A final reminder for those who wish to join us tomorrow! 📚
📢 New on our blog, The Cricket: 'Celebrating the Birthday of the Inimitable through UCSC's Dickens Day of Writing' ✍️🏻
www.dickenssociety.org/the-cricket/...
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...
This Saturday, join us for a wonderful free online conference celebrating Dickens's birthday: www.dickenssociety.org/the-cricket/...
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
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
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
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 👇
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...
Don't forget to register to attend our free virtual conference on 7th February: www.eventbrite.com/e/novel-begi...
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
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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
Sara Malton, our Vice President, gave a fascinating interview on ABC Syracuse about A Christmas Carol. Watch it here: youtu.be/Bitie0-BSWU?...
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-....
As articles on any aspect of the 19th c relating to Dickens are welcome, that would include the novels, short stories, & articles, too. 🙂
Considering coming to one of our summer symposiums? Read about our 2025 Boston Symposium below from Emma Linford and get ✨inspired✨ for Aarhus 2026! 🌎
dickenssociety.org/archives/4808
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 👇
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/...
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...
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
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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