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Miriam Branch, a member of the Greater Riverside Area Dickens Fellowship, reflects on the “Barnaby Rudge” Reading Marathon with the high school senior AP English class from Foshay Learning Center.

Charles Dickens is known for his marriage plots: no matter what kinds of twists and turns threaten the path of true love, in the end David Copperfield gets his Agnes, Esther Summerson gets her Woodcourt, and John Harmon gets his Bella. But was marriage really a happy ending for the women in Dickens’s novels?

Charles Dickens just wants to talk about his book, A Christmas Carol, but what happens when Scrooge, Tiny Tim, Mrs. Catherine Dickens, and the Ghost of Christmas Present show up? Chaos, confusion, conflict, and complaints, just like a typical holiday gathering.

Gerri Kimber reviews Jon Michael Varese’s debut novel, ‘The Spirit Photographer,’ for ‘The Times Literary Supplement’ drawing connections between Wilkie Collins and Joseph Campbell’s ‘Heart of Darkness.’

Here’s your chance to get an audio immersion in UC Santa Cruz’s famed Dickens Universe—you’ll feel like you’re right there, uncovering new meanings in the text, drinking tea, and getting ready for the Victorian dance.

Long-time Dickens Universe attendee and Friends of the Dickens Project board member, Beth Penney, reports on the activities of the 2018 Dickens Universe conference.

South LA teens bring exhibition for its third installation at Dickens Universe 2018

UC Santa Cruz has received two grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to support humanities projects in the Literature Department.

UCSC alumni Jon Varese gives a talk on his first published novel, The Spirit Photographer, at 2018 Dickens Universe

Call for proposals for a conference on nineteenth-century literature, art, and history to be held at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the University of Haifa, co-sponsored by the University of California’s Dickens Project.

College of the Redwoods Honors student Kaylee Steiner has been awarded a 2018 Dickens Universe Community College scholarship for a literary analysis paper she wrote as partial fulfillment of an Honors credit contract.

The Dickens Project is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2018 Dickens Universe Scholarships.