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The Dickens Code Project is hosting a prize of £300 for the full or partial decipherment of a shorthand letter presumed to have been written by Charles Dickens.

This summer, the Dickens Project at UC Santa Cruz—the largest multi-campus consortium on Victorian studies in the world—will present the 40th year of the Dickens Universe, a week of intense study and festivities.

Iain Crawford, Professor of English at the University of Delaware, reviews ‘The Oxford Handbook of Charles Dickens’ edited by Robert L. Patten, John O. Jordan, and Catherine Waters.

Universe participants are invited to help decipher much of Dickens’s deleted and revised manuscript material as possible to produce a powerful and lasting resource for readers, scholars, and editors of his work.

The Friends of the Dickens Project Board has recently elected a new President, who will begin his term at this year’s Dickens Universe in July. Meet both the current President, JoAnna Rottke, as well as the incoming President, Mike Stern, in this article.

Join us at 2:00 p.m. (ET) on Wednesday, June 16, for a one-hour lecture and Q&A to learn about the history of Charles Dickens’s classic, ‘A Christmas Carol.’

An online networking symposium introduces the ‘savage stenographic mystery of Dickens’s shorthand and the challenges of deciphering unusual scripts. July 23, 2021, 2:00-6:40 PM (BST)

Joseph McLaughlin, Associate Professor of English at Ohio University and coeditor of the ‘Ohio Series in Victorian Studies’ at Ohio’s university press, reviews ‘The Oxford Handbook of Charles Dickens’ edited by Robert L. Patten, John O. Jordan, and Catherine Waters.

You are cordially invited to join us for the premiere screening of Dear Iola, Love South LA, a film festival produced by South L.A. teens, all inspired by their journey with the 19th-century novel ‘Iola Leroy’ by Frances E. W. Harper, one of the most influential African American woman activists of her period. Celebrate these…

Join the Deciphering Dickens team on Thursday, February 18, 2021, from 1:00-6:00 PM (GMT) to explore the V&A’s Dickens collections and discuss exciting new approaches to how we might read, edit, and share historical materials in the digital age, both in Dickens’s case and beyond.

If you want a grasp of why and how the nineteenth-century novel matters now, indulge yourself in four brilliant essays on Charles Dickens’s ‘Little Dorrit,’ brought to you by ‘Nineteenth-Century Literature.’ The mix of essays reminds us that sometimes we do our best and most ambitious theoretical work by eyeing sharply a novel that can…

The Friends of the Dickens Project’s fundraising auction is a community-building event to celebrate the work of the Dickens Project. All proceeds will support the activities of the Dickens Project, including high school and community college scholarships and travel grants.