Charles Dickens Letters Project

Published today, buy our Principal Editor, in two volumes: the Oxford critical edition of Our Mutual Friend: global.oup.com/academic/produ…

Ah, the dynamic author! Despite noting that depth is apt to be sacrificed to breadth in this wide-ranging study, our reviewer, Philip Allingham, can't help falling under the spell of Mark Conrad's "#Dickens The Enchanter"! victorianweb.org/authors/dicken…

Gad's Hill Place Tour, #Higham, 9th May, 1pm & 2:30pm 🏡 Enjoy an interesting tour of #CharlesDickens' historic family home with a #Dickens Trust Guide! Adults £12, children 7-12yrs £5 🎫 Book now - visitgravesend.co.uk/events/gads-hi…

Our next public guided tours of Dickens’s final home will be on May 9th. Tickets must be booked as places are limited. More info on our website gadshillplace.co.uk

The Signalman wiltons.org.uk/whats-on/the-s…

Exhibition at Camden Local Studies & Archives Centre 20 April to 13 June: Streets of Inspiration – Charles Dickens & Camden. It will explore the many connections between Dicken's life & work & our Borough. Monday 10-6 Tuesday 10-6 Thursday 10-7 & alternate Saturdays 11-5.

A wonderful weekend awaits in Dickens's favourite seaside town - 'Our Watering Place', Household Words, Vol III, no. 71, published 2 August 1851 djo.org.uk/.../articles/o…

Photos from the Dickens Universe Winter 2026 Graduate Student Conference (March 6–8), hosted by Southern Methodist University Department of English and co-sponsored by Rice University and The Dickens Project.

Join us on Thurs 16th April (6.15pm) at Gad’s Hill for a talk by Annie Elliot - author of new novel ‘Mr & Mrs Charles Dickens’. The event is organised by the Rochester & Chatham Dickens Fellowship. Contact secretary Steve for a ticket (£3) by email stevemartin54@hotmail.com

Author's copies have just arrived pre final publication. Now well into writing Vol 2 #DickensMiddle & #LaterNovels which hopefully will be available during 2027

My new @Substack article is on the fascinating Louis Roche, the French courier on whom Charles Dickens depended when he travelled around Europe. open.substack.com/pub/lucindahaw…? @DickensMuseum @DickensFellowHQ

OTD - 02/04/1836 - CD and Catherine got married at St. Luke's Church in Chelsea.

BOTD - 02/04/1812 - in Newcastle upon Tyne - John Forster, CDs friend, literary adviser, and biographer (and possible model for Podsnap in OMF).

OTD - 01/04/1854 - 'Hard Times' began its serialisation in 'Household Words'.

#onthisday in 1869 the wonderful Charles Dickens, his health failing, gave a farewell reading at the Music Hall in #Sheffield

Artwork by Frank Reynolds British artist. Known for his many illustrations in several books by Charles Dickens. Scrooge and the second of the three spirts(A Christmas Carol) Christmas Advert for Buchanan's Scotch Whiskies Dec 13 1913 Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic News

#Liverpool OTD - 1860: Charles Dickens visits the Liverpool Workhouse to see soldiers recently returned from India

DOTD - 31/03/1851 - John Dickens, father of CD. 'My poor father died this morning at five and twenty minutes before six...He didn't know me, or any one, and quietly declined until he died.' To Thomas Beard 32/03/1851.

A Pilgrimage Through the World of Charles Dickens: The Dickens Museum, London, Canterbury and Beyond. #Charlesdickens #Charlesdickensmuseum #Dickensian itsmeadarsh.wordpress.com/2026/03/30/a-p…

My next free talk for @DickensMuseum is on 7 May, when I'll be talking about my great great great aunt, Mamie Dickens, daughter of Catherine and Charles Dickens. You can register to attend either in person (there are limited places) or online. dickensmuseum.com/blogs/all-even…