To tie in with the 22nd annual Dickens Society Symposium, running 14-16 July in Boston, MA, the Dickens Society blog also welcomes submissions of 800-1200 words related to the topic of Interdisciplinary Dickens.

The Dickens Society Blog welcomes targeted submissions of 800-1200 words on topics relating to Dickens and Animals.

Announcing the […] University of Delaware Library’s exhibition “Victorian Passions: Stories from the Mark Samuels Lasner Collection,” curated by Margaret D. Stetz, on view in the Special Collections Gallery, UD Library, from 14 February-3 June 2017.

Gina Dalfonzo writes, “In 2011, historian and author Les Standiford published The Man Who Invented Christmas: How Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol Rescued His Career and Revived Our Holiday Spirits. The book was an insightful, very thorough exploration of the many factors that contributed to the writing of Dickens’s Christmas classic, its reception, and its legacy…”

This month the Dickens Society will be launching the Dickens Society Blog, aimed at disseminating Dickensian research both amongst the Society’s membership and to the larger academic community.