DF CENTRAL - WHERE DICKENS WENT WRONG
Can you improve upon Dickens's work? Don't forget to register for the next meeting of the Central Fellowhip at the Rugby Tavern, round the corner from the Charles Dickens Museum. Register online
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COMPETITION RESULTS: Could self-isolation find the Dickens in you?
At an online presentation ceremony on Wednesday 15 July 2020, our President, Mr Ian Dickens, announced the winner of the competition organised earlier this year by the Journalists’ Charity in partnership with the Dickens Fellowship. The winner was Mr David Whewell with his character Barbara Copeland – ‘the B of the Q’ at a famous DIY store! Mr Whewell was awarded an original drawing of ‘Barbara’ by veteran Fleet Street cartoonist Stanley McMurtry MBE – better known as MAC – a certificate, and two tickets for a guided tour of the Dickens Museum in London. Four runners up each received two tickets to visit the Dickens Museum. Video recordings of these and many other entries can be viewed at https://journalistscharity.org.uk/dickens/
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A Virtual Dickens Universe July 26 - 31
From Tara Thomas (UCSC):
I'm pleased to announce that the Dickens Project will be hosting a virtual Dickens Universe from July 26th to the 31st. While the originally planned program focusing on David Copperfield and Iola Leroy will still take place in 2021, this week of online programming will feature a range of conversations that discuss the occasion of the pair and the insights that bringing them together can offer. Over the course of the week, scholars from Victorian studies and early African American studies will discuss linkages between their respective fields, approaches for addressing race and racism in the classroom, and productive ways to engage with Black studies in the nineteenth century and its transatlantic contexts. We hope that this will generate excitement to read these two novels over the next year and to join us in Santa Cruz for the full Dickens Universe conference.
We hope that this week will provide some useful context for these two novels, as we read them together over the next year. In addition to providing some critical background for France E.W. Harper’s career and Iola Leroy, it will also help place her alongside Dickens as one of the most important and prolific writers of the nineteenth century. Like Dickens , Harper was a virtuoso writer of many literary genres (including fiction, prose, and poetry), was deeply involved in nineteenth-century print and periodical cultures. She was a powerful public speaker and an activist in the anti-slavery, suffrage, temperance, and post-emancipation racial justice movements.
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DF Central July meeting, view the recording
The Dickens Fellowship's London meeting held on July 28th. 2020 was very successful with over 95 attendeeds The talk by Dr. Tony Williams was much appreciated and may be viewed here
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