Dickens Search

Welcome! This account will post updates when new texts, functionality and/or blog posts are added to Dickens Search. Explore our digital archive: dickenssearch.com

We're also investigating and disproving false Dickens attributions. Read @lydiaecraig's update for the blog about 5 poems Dickens did NOT write: 'Lord Bateman', 'Little Nell's Funeral', 'The Children', 'The Turtle Dove' and 'Things That Can Never Die': dickenssearch.com/poetry-dickens…

We're allowed to change our minds, right? Our 'Poetry' collection has been renamed 'Verse', and now includes epitaphs Dickens wrote, alongside songs, poems and parodies. Explore all 77 items in the collection: dickenssearch.com/verse

Just added: 'Charade', from the Bradbury Album (3 June 1847) dickenssearch.com/poetry/1847-06…. Can you guess the answer to Dickens's riddle?

Do you have ideas for functionality we should add? Or feedback on the kind of information available? Let us know! This is a project for the community and we’re keen to make it as useful as possible.

For now, you can search, compare, and view Ngrams of word/phrase frequency over time and most common words and phrases.

Launch day for us at the @Dickens_Society symposium! Dickens Search is a new database created by @EmilyJLB & @lydiaecraig. It's still growing but as a start you can browse the most complete corpus of Dickens' poetry ever created. Dive in: dickenssearch.com #VirtualDickens21