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1 Websites of buildings associated with Dickens

Website address
The Charles Dickens Museum
48 Doughty Street
London WC1N 2LX
England
  • Dickens's home from 1837 to 1839
  • Head Office of the Dickens Fellowship
 www.dickensmuseum.com
See also www.dickens2012.org
Charles Dickens Birthplace,
Old Commercial Road
Portsmouth
England
  • Where Dickens was born on 7th February 1812
  • His parents' first marital home
  • Now a museum
 www.charlesdickensbirthplace.co.uk
The Dickens House Museum
2 Victoria Parade
Broadstairs
Kent CT10 1QS
  • Once the home of Miss Mary Pearson Strong, on whom much of the character of Miss Betsey Trotwood in David Copperfield was based.
www.dickensfellowship.org/DHMB.htm
Restoration House
Crow Lane
Rochester
England
  • Model for Miss Havisham's Satis House in Great Expectations
  • Beautifully restored by current owners
 www.restorationhouse.co.uk
St James' Church
Main Road
Cooling
Rochester
Kent ME3 8DG
  • An inspiration for the opening scene of Great Expectations
 Featured on the website of the Churches Conservation Trust
www.visitchurches.org.uk

2 Websites of Fellowship branches

Website address
Bristol and Clifton
England
  • Founded 1902
  • Organisers of the 2003 Dickens Fellowship Conference
 www.dickens-society.org.uk
Chatham, Kent
Canada
  • Founded 2004
www.dickensfellowship.ca
Chicago
USA
  • Founded 1905
www.chicagodickensfellowship.org
Cleveland
USA
  • Founded 1984
  • Organisers of the 2009 Fellowship Conference
 www.clevelanddickensfellowship.org
Denmark
  • Founded 2004
 http://dickens-selskabet.dk
Haarlem
The Netherlands
  • Founded 1956
  • Organisers of the 2006 Dickens Fellowship Conference
 http://home.planet.nl/~aadel/Dickens.htm
Japan
  • Founded 1970 (as Tokyo Branch)
 wwwsoc.nii.ac.jp/dickens/index-e.html
Melbourne
Australia
  • Founded 1904
  • Organisers of the 2004 Dickens Fellowship Conference
 www.dickens.asn.au
New South Wales
Australia
  • Founded 2004
www.dickenssydney.com.au
New York City
USA
  • Founded 1905
 www.dickensnewyork.com
The Friends of Dickens New York
USA
  • Founded 1998
  • Organisers of the 2001 Dickens Fellowship Conference
 www.thefriendsofdickens.org
North East England
  • Founded 2002
  • Organisers of the 2008 Dickens Fellowship Conference
 www.charlesdickens-ne.co.uk
Palo Alto
USA
  • Founded 1975
www.dickenspaloalto.org
Philadelphia
USA
  • Founded 1907
  • Organisers of the 2007 Dickens Fellowship Conference
 http://members.cruzio.com/~varese/dickens/index.html
Pittsburgh
USA
  • Founded 1925
 www.mathcs.duq.edu/%7Ematobin/DF_Home.html
Toronto
Canada
  • Founded 1905
 www.solutioneers.net/dickenstoronto/
Worcester
USA
  • Founded 1932
http://dickensfellowshipworcester.googlepages.com

3 A member's website

Website address
Dickens-and-London
  • Guides to walks in the London of Dickens, created by Sue Gane, a member of the central group.
 http://www.dickens-and-london.com

4 Major Reference Sites

Website address
Professor Matsuoka's
Dickens Pages
Nagoya University, Japan
  • A first-class reference site, with numerous links
  • Professor Matsuoka also runs the Japan Branch site
 http://lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/Dickens.html
Professor Matsuoka's
Hyper-Concordance
  • A very useful resource for scholars and students
  • Other Victorian authors covered
 http://victorian.lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/concordance/dickens
Ritva Raesmaa's(Finland)
Dickens Pages
  • A very comprehensive site, covering all aspects of Dickens's life and works.
 http://www.helsinki.fi/kasv/nokol/dickens.html
David Purdue's
Charles Dickens Pages
  • Another very comprehensive site, including an A-Z of every Dickens character.
 www.fidnet.com/~dap1955/dickens/index.html

5 Other Sites on Dickens and his Works

Website address
Dickens Journals Online
  • Details of the project based at the University of Buckingham to put Dickens's Household Words and All the Year Round online by 2012.
 www.buckingham.ac.uk/djo
Charles Dickens - Gad's Hill Place
  • An informative and friendly site on a variety of topics related to Dickens.
 www.perryweb.com/Dickens

6 Other Literary Societies

Website address
Charles Dickens-Gesellschaft Deutschland e.V.
  • Founded in 2008
 www.dickens-gesellschaft.de
The Wilkie Collins Society
  • Wilkie Collins (1824-89) was Dickens's most important literary collaborator.
 http://www.wilkiecollins.com
The Trollope Society
  • Anthony Trollope (1815-82) was a friend of Dickens but also one of the most severe critics of his works.
 www.anthonytrollope.com