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Beth Penney, who is a Friends of the Dickens Project board member, reports on the 41st Dickens Universe.

The conference itself is both familiar and unfamiliar. The redwoods are there, and the deer, although there are more wild turkeys and no foxes. The place smells the same, of cedar and rosemary and—perhaps you only imagine this—faintly of the ocean with its shock of aquamarine you as you move from the woods to open…

Further reading: a list of Nineteenth-Century African American Literature, including selected writing of Frances E. W. Harper, nineteenth century mixed-race heroine fiction, and some other African American literature recommendations, including a handful of short stories that have only very recently been made available to contemporary readers!

An article by UCSC’s Dan White about the Dickens Universe’s successful return!

A special article about the joys of the Dickens Universe and its role in changing lives

An introduction to Tim Clark and Ron Blumer, who are the organizers behind the Dickens Project’s yearly auction

An article about the Dickens Project’s new writing program, the Dickens Day of Writing

An announcement for this year’s Dickens Universe, which runs from July 24-July 30

On April 27th, thirty-two enthusiastic high school juniors and seniors from Pacific Collegiate School in Santa Cruz participated in the pilot Dickens Day of Writing program. Students studied Charles Dickens’s “Night Walks,” an essay exploring houselessness in Victorian England, and attended The Day of Writing to develop their own critical or personal essays related to…

An article on the Dickens Project’s 2022 grad student conference that was held in the winter over Zoom.

A portrait of one of the Dickens Project’s beloved furry friends, starring Sheck the lemon beagle

A review of Jack Thorne’s San Francisco stage production of ‘A Christmas Carol’