The Cricket
The Society’s Blog
Edited by Dr. Katie Bell and Dr. Céleste Callen
A New Heart for the New Year: Dickens, Renewal, and the Victorian Tradition of Transformation
Melisa Kaya states, “The New Year has always been a moment of transformation—a threshold where the weight of the past slips away and the future gleams with untold possibilities. For the Victorians…”
The Ghost and Mr. Dickens
Katie Bell states, “Charles Dickens always wanted to see a ghost, but he never quite managed it. In 1859, he wrote to his friend (and spiritualist), William Howitt, to inquire if he knew of any genuinely haunted houses that could be stayed in and surveyed for spirits, or “ghost-busted” in modern terminology. Here we see Dickens was one of the first paranormal investigators!…”