The Dickens Fellowship, founded in 1902, is a worldwide association of people who share an interest in the life and works of Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870). For more information about our organisation visit the organisation page.
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2012 - Portsmouth, England
The Dickens Fellowship is a very ‘organic’ organisation – it grows and shrinks and grows somewhere else. Since its foundation in 1902 many Branches have formed and disbanded, and others have formed and continue to flourish. There are currently over 50 branches of the Dickens Fellowship and affiliated societies in existence, but there is plenty of potential for more! We are currently in touch with several enthusiastic people who are interested in creating new Dickens reading groups or new Dickens Fellowship Branches.
A talk by Dr Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, Fellow and Tutor at Magdalen College, Oxford. He is the author of “Victorian Afterlives: The Shaping of Influence in Nineteenth-Century Literature”, and editor of a selected edition of Henry Mayhew’s “London Labour and the London Poor”.
Charles Dickens
7/February/1812 - 9/June/1870
This Web Site is dedicated to the late Martha Rosso
A member of the Philadelphia Branch for over 35 years, Martha Rosso (née Pamplin) was one of the Fellowship's most dynamic and best loved figures. She contributed unstintingly to its business right to the very end of her life. Click here to read more about Martha Rosso.
