Dickens Fellowship Web-Links

Websites of buildings associated with Dickens

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 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 /dickens-house-museum-broadstairs.html
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	www.visitchurches.org.uk Featured on the website of the Churches Conservation Trust

Websites of Fellowship branches

Bristol and Clifton England	Founded 1902 Organisers of the 2003 Dickens Fellowship Conference	www.dickens-society.org
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
Eastbourne	Founded 1919	www.dickensfellowship.org/Eastbourne
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://dickensfellowship worcester.googlepages.com

A member's website

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

Major Reference Sites

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

Other Sites on Dickens and his Works

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

Other Literary Societies

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

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