"Pip, dear old chap, life is made of ever so many partings welded together..."Great Expectations, ch.27

Welcome to The Dickens Society

Founded in 1970 as an organization to encourage and support research and writing on Charles Dickens. Dickens Quarterly, a scholarly journal and organ of the Society, is published in March, June, September and December.

Latest Quarterly

Dickens Quarterly: Volume 27 March 2010 Number 1

ARTICLES

Wendy Parkins: Emotions, Ethics and Sociality in Dickens’s Sketches of Young Couples

John O. Jordan: The Ghost in Bleak House

Stewart Justman: “Oriental Tales and Great Expectations

Ewa Kujawska-Lis: Dickens and Ellen Ternan in Polish Criticism Read more »

Forthcoming Events

Charles Dickens as an Agent for Change

Seminar, 10–12 June 2010, Universität des Saarlandes

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The Dickens Society Symposium

Université de Provence 3-5 June 2010, Aix-en-Provence, France.
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Dickens Quarterly


Dickens Society
Incorporated in 1971 as a non-profit, non-private organization, the Society exists to promote the study of Dickens. Read More »
Events
The Society holds an annual symposium, alternating between locations in Europe and North America, for the delivery of papers on any aspect of Dickens, his works, life and times. Read More »
Partlow Prize
A competitive subvention awarded to the best proposal from graduate students and junior faculty to help defray costs of attending the symposium. Read More »