The Fellowship's journal, The Dickensian, founded in 1905, publishes articles of literary criticism from scholars around the world and occasionally special Supplements of newly discovered letters by Dickens. It also carries reviews of books, plays, films and TV productions, together with reports of Fellowship activities and other Dickens-related news. The Dickensian is edited by Professor Malcolm Andrews of the University of Kent.
Currently 96 pages long, The Dickensian is published three times a year, with articles on all aspects of Dickens's life, works and character; book, theatre, TV and radio reviews; and a section devoted to reporting on Fellowship activities.
Newly discovered letters of Charles Dickens are published in The Dickensian as Supplements to the Pilgrim Edition of The Letters of Charles Dickens.
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Charles Dickens
7/February/1812 - 9/June/1870
We are pleased to announce that the Spring 2012 issue of The Dickensian will carry a special feature to celebrate the Bicentenary.
A number of major figures in literature, journalism and the theatre (Dickens's main fields of activity) will be contributing short appreciations of Dickens and reflecting on what he has meant for them in their craft. Contributors include: Howard Jacobson, Philip Pullman, David Mitchell, Simon Callow, Jacqueline Wilson, James Naughtie.
In the Winter 2002 issue of The Dickensian (vol 98, pp.233-35) we published an article on Dickens and Dostoyevsky which contained remarks apparently made by Dickens in an interview with Dostoyevsky in London in 1862. The occasion was allegedly recalled by Dostoyevsky in a letter of 1878 which was transcribed in a journal cited by the article’s author. Subsequent researchers have so far not been able to locate the journal cited nor indeed to verify that such a journal exists. The author was the unfortunate victim of a very serious road accident some time ago, and is not in a condition to respond to further enquiries on this issue.
We are therefore bound to issue a caution that the authenticity of this letter by Dostoyevsky remains to be proven, in spite of the fact that it has gained currency in a number of recent publications on Dickens.
This Index for The Dickensian’s last quarter of a century or so supplements Frank Dunn’s 1976 Cumulative Index, which covered the first 70 years of the journal’s life. Writers and readers have since then brought The Dickensian to its 100th birthday (in 2005) and, en route, have also celebrated the centenary in 2002 of the founding of the Fellowship itself. Click the cover for more information.
After completion of the Pilgrim/British Academy edition of Dickens’s Letters in 2002, material still continued to come in, variously new letters, fuller or better texts of letters already published, further information, and corrections.
An editorial team was established to publish this new material in Supplements, published in The Dickensian. The first supplement appeared in the Winter 2002 issue and they have continued since.
While the minor Corrigenda are of importance to scholars, they have at times overloaded the Supplements. It has therefore been agreed by the editorial team to publish minor Corrigenda, from Supplement XV onward, on the Dickens Fellowship Website, where they can be regularly updated and easily accessed. Significant Corrigenda and Internal Corrigenda to the Supplements will still continue to appear in the Supplements.
References (at the top of each entry) to the earlier volumes of The Letters of Charles Dickens are by volume, page and line, every printed line below the running head being counted. Where appropriate, note and column number are included. The Editors gratefully acknowledge the help of individuals and institutions acknowledged in the Supplements.
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