The Dickens Fellowship

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Web Name: The Dickens Fellowship

WebSite: http://www.dickensfellowship.org

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The Dickens Fellowship, founded in 1902, is a worldwide association of people who share an interest in the life and works of Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870). For more information about our organisation visit the organisation page.The DF can be contacted at: postbox@dickensfellowship.org.  Please address any queries or comments about this website or the Dickens Fellowship generally to this address.Please direct any queries about Dickens's life, works, later reputation and interpretation – and also any enquiries concerning the Fellowship’s history to: WTo1@aol.com.For the latest news and comment, please refer to Household Words at the lower left of this page. Use the Search Box in the upper right to enter a word or phrase to search the entire site. Subscribe to The Dickensian and enjoy free access online to all issues from 1905 onwards.The Dickensian's back issues, from 1905 onwards, are available electronically, and word-searchable, through ProQuest publishers. Individual subscribers to The Dickensian are given complimentary access to these online resources, for personal use only, by application to Geoff Dicks geoffrey.dicks@btinternet.com Congratulations to the Carrara Branch of the DF whose members have translated three of Dickens's ghost stories into Italian. The stories are: The Haunted Man, The Goblin who Stole a Sexton, and To be Taken With a Grain of Salt. The collection, with new illustrations, will be published by Blackdog in November. The Dickens Fellowship conference in 2021 will be in Haarlem, The Netherlands. The website address is: http://www.dickensfellowshipconference2021.nl 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! Although the coronavirus pandemic prevented the annual wreath-laying in Westminster Abbey on 9th June taking its usual form, the 150th anniversary of Dickens’s death was commemorated when the Dean of Westminster laid wreaths on behalf of both the Fellowship and the Dickens family. The Fellowship are very sorry to announce that the Présidente of the Boulogne-sur-mer Branch of the Fellowship, Mme Janine Watrin, passed away on 25 May.Janine was a stalwart member of the Boulogne branch and, for many years, an ever-present at DF Conferences. Janine was author of the bilingual ‘Charles Dickens and M. Beaucourt-Mutuel: Une Histoirie D’Amite’ (2013) and the guidebook ‘Parcours sur Les Pas De Charles Dickens Boulogne-Sur-Mer’ (2019). Given the current Covid-19 outbreak, it is likely that all events organised by each and every branch of the Dickens Fellowship will be cancelled for the immediate future. Please check with the relevant branch before travelling if you are unsure whether the event will proceed or not.  The annual Dickens Fellowship Birthday Dinner took place at the Oxford and Cambridge Club in Pall Mall on Friday 7th February. The toast to the Immortal Memory was proposed by Armando Ianuccii whose film version of David Copperfield had just been released. Photos courtesy of Lucinda Hawksley.   The Dickens Fellowship is delighted to assist the Charles Dickens Museum in Doughty Street to acquire a remarkable collection of material from a private collector in the United States. The financial help amounted to a donation of £800K – made possible by a bequest from the estate of the late Ronald Gordon Hill. The donation from the Fellowship fulfils one of our aims: “to assist in the preservation and purchase of buildings and objects associated with his name or mentioned in his works.” The Dickens Fellowship is delighted to announce that three Patrons of the Fellowship have been appointed.  All three – Miriam Margolyes, Simon Callow and Mark Dickens – are well known for their love of Charles Dickens and the work they have done on behalf of the Charles Dickens Museum.  We are very grateful for their interest in, and support for, the Fellowship. For further information, please follow this link. http://www.dickensfellowship.org/patrons-dickens-fellowship This Web Site is dedicated to the late Martha Rosso  (1922 - 2003)A member of the Philadelphia Branch for over 35 years, Martha Rosso (née Pamplin) was one of the Fellowship's most dynamic and best loved figures. She contributed unstintingly to its business right to the very end of her life. Click here to read more about Martha Rosso.

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