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The Dickens Magazine
The Dickens Magazine is issued twice a year in February and August and is under the direction of the following editorial team:
Alan S Watts: Former Honorary General Secretary and President of The Dickens Fellowship.
Thelma Grove: Former Joint Honorary General Secretary of The Dickens Fellowship.
Dr Tony Williams: Former Joint Honorary General secretary of The Dickens Fellowship.
Dr David Parker: Former Curator of The Dickens House Museum, London and President of The Dickens Society.
Professor Philip V Allingham: Contributing Editor of The Victorian Website and Consultant to The Dickens Magazine.
Lucinda Hawksley Dickens: A great great granddaughter of Charles Dickens and Consultant to The Dickens Magazine.
George P Gorniak: Publishing Editor of The Dickens Magazine
The Dickens Magazine consists of two parts. Part A is dedicated to a particular novel while Part B looks at the wider Dickens connection and influence. The magazine is illustrated with a range of contemporary and less well known illustrations and photographs. To date five series have been published.
A selection of readers comments on The Dickens Magazine:
A very attractive and readable magazine with a broad mix of articles. Jennifer M. Charlton (USA)
The Dickens Magazine fulfils a valuable function; one that is not filled either by The Dickensian or The Dickens Quarterly. Dr Alan Dilnot (Australia)
The magazine is excellently edited and produced. An education in itself. Innes Wright (Scotland)
On behalf of President Mrs. Margaret Dent, and all the members of The Dickens Fellowship, York, may I thank all concerned, for a brilliant series of magazines, which is greatly enjoyed by all. Janet Parker, Hon. Secretary (York, England)
A most interesting magazine and a masterly production. Carl Johnston (Dorset, England)
The Dickens Magazine: Series One - Great Expectations. Issued in six parts. Total Cost £32 ( plus pp £4 UK and Europe. £8 ROW ).
Some of the topics covered in Part A: Synopsis of all chapters; Topography in Great Expectations; Characters in Focus; Dame Schools; Money in Great Expectations; Pip’s Steps Down the Moral Ladder; Dickens and the Law; Humour in Great Expectations; Publication in Parts; Reality and Illusion; Repentance; Ellen Ternan and Estella; The Trial and Death of Magwitch; Early and Later Critical Opinions.
Some of the topics covered in Part B: George Eliot; J.B. Priestley; The American Civil War; H.G. Wells; Teenagers’ Comments on Great Expectations; The Dickens Family in 1861; John Galsworthy; Monica Dickens; Essays and Reviews; John Mortimer; Dickens’s Secret Affair; Wilkie Collins; Dickens’s Journals; A Message from the Sea; Charles Reade; John Cowper Powys; Cartoons by Carla Ostrer.
Contributors to Series One: Dr Kathleen Adams, Professor Philip V Allingham, Nicola Beauman, Professor Philip Collins, Cedric Dickens, Eliot Engel, Andrew Gasson, Chris Gostick, Harmon Greenblatt, Thelma Grove, Dr John Hammond, Anthony James, Elsie Karbacz, Dr David Parker, William E. Pike, Dr Takao Saijo, Professor Andrew Sanders, Professor Alan Shelston, Alan S. Watts, Dr Tony Williams.
The Dickens Magazine: Series Two - Hard Times. Issued in four parts. Total Cost £24 ( plus pp £3 UK and Europe; £6 ROW ).
Some of the topics covered in Part A: Synopsis of all chapters; The Origin of Hard Times; Dickens at 42; The Keynote; Characters in Focus; Dickens and Education; Hard Times and Chartism; Divorce in Hard Times; Preston and the Great Lock-Out Strike; Dickens’s Problems with Hard Times; Dickens and Mine Workers; Dickens’s Amendments; Illustrations of CS Reinhart; The Reception of Hard Times.
Some of the topics covered in Part B: Dickens and Carlyle; The Rise of Trade Unions; Naipaul and Dickens; New York’s Bleak House; David Livingstone; Railways in Dickens’s Day; John Stuart Mill; Cholera; P.G. Wodehouse; Dickens and the Factory Acts; George Bernard Shaw; Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Dickens and Urania Cottage; Evelyn Waugh; Dickens and the Franklin Expedition; Sir Hugh Walpole; James Joyce.
Contributors to Series Two: Professor Philip V Allingham, Dr David Butler, Professor Philip Collins, Dr Alan Dilnot, Roger Dobson, Anthony F. Evans, Dr Joanna Eysell, Warren Douglas, George Gorniak, Thelma Grove, Dr Donald Hawes, Emma Heslewood, Beryl Jones, Helen Murphy, Dr David Parker, John Sedgwick, Alan S. Watts, Dr Tony Williams.
The Dickens Magazine: Series Three - A Tale of Two Cities. Issued in four parts Cost £24 ( plus pp £4 UK and Europe; £6 ROW )
Some of the topics covered in Part A: Origins of A Tale of Two Cities; Marie Antoinette; The Frozen Deep; Christian Symbolism; Synopsis of all the chapters; Characters in focus; The Only Way; Exile and Wandering in A Tale of Two Cities; Echoes, Shadows and Footsteps; Lettres de Cachet; Women who were not Tricoteuses; Robespierre the Incorruptible; Dickens Interest in Executions; Analysis of Linking Sections to A Tale of Two Cities; Contemporary and Later Reviews; Phiz’s Plates for A Tale of Two Cities; Comparison of Barnaby Rudge and A Tale of Two Cities.
Some of the topics covered in Part B: Dickens’s Residences; The French Revolution; George Gissing; Jean-Jacques Rousseau; Dickens and Christmas; Lord Shaftesbury; Dickens and Dostoevsky; G. K. Chesterton; Victor Hugo; Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch; Hablot K. Browne; Dickens and Religion; Honore de Balzac; Dickens and the Supernatural; Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; Emile Zola; French Novels of the Revolution; Henry James; The English Revolution.
Contributors to Series Three: Professor Philip V. Allingham, Dr Alan Dilnot, George Gorniak, Thelma Grove, Dr Donald Hawes, Professor Michael Hollington, Dr Christine Huguet, John Lawson, Dr David Parker, John Sedgwick, Janine Watrin, Alan S. Watts, Dr Tony Williams.
The Dickens Magazine: Series Four – The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Four issues Cost £24 (plus pp £4 UK and Europe; £6 ROW )
Some of the topics covered in Part A: Dickens at 58; Dickens and Colonialism; Dickens and Opium, Characters in Focus; Luke Fildes’s Illustrations; Synopsis of all the chapters; Cross-dressing and Disguise; The Light of the World; Intimations of Mortality; Cloisterham Revisited; The Two Wrappers; Some Dramatic Solutions.
Some of the topics covered in Part B: The Poetical Dickens; Henry James; Frank Richards; Clergymen in mid-Victorian Novels; American Reflections; Kate Perugini; Leo Tolstoy; The Victorian Detective Novel; Hans Christian Andersen; Kate Field; M E Braddon; The Opium Wars; Cecil Chesterton; Sir Leslie Stephen, Hudson Taylor.
Contributors to Series Four: Professor Philip V Allingham, Professor Christine DeVine, Dr Alan Dilnot, Dr Kim Edwards, George Gorniak, Thelma Grove, Dr Donald Hawes, Lucinda Dickens Hawksley, Dr Christine Huguet, Professor Niels Kofoed, Dr David Parker, John Sedgwick, Alan S Watts, Dr Tony Williams.
The Dickens Magazine: Series Five – Martin Chuzzlewit. Issued in four parts Cost £24 (plus pp £4 UK and Europe; £6 ROW)
Some of the topics covered in Part A: Dickens at 30, Phiz’s illustrations, The Chuzzlewit Pedigree, America’s Eden, Charity and Mercy, Dickens as Tourist, Characters in Focus, Artistic Expression, The Role of Money, Biblical Allusions, Dualistic Chronological Setting, The Three Landladies, Recurring Themes.
Some of the topics covered in Part B: Washington Irving, G F Watts, George Orwell, The American Press, Atlantic Crossings, Eliza Lynn Linton, Pictures From Italy, John Everet Millais, Ivan Turgenev, Fred Barnard, William Wilberforce, John Forster, The Energy of Dickens.
Contributors to Series Five: Professor Philip V Allingham, Dr Alan Dilnot, Dr Joanne Eysell, George Gorniak, Thelma Grove, Dr Donald Hawes, Lucinda Dickens Hawksley, Dr Christine Huguet, A Abby Jones, Professor Leoneé Ormond, Dr David Parker, Professor David J Smith, Dr Nathalie Vanfasse, Alan S Watts, Dr Tony Williams, Anita Fernandez-Young.