Cathy Waters
@catherinefaver.bsky.social
Professor Emerita of Victorian Literature and Print Culture, Dickensian and long-distance walker.
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Obit for Michael Slater in the @theguardian.com: www.theguardian.com/books/2025/d...
Michael Slater obituary
Scholar of Charles Dickens who wrote a definitive biography and shone a light on the writer’s more neglected works
www.theguardian.com
December 26, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Obit for Michael Slater in the @theguardian.com: www.theguardian.com/books/2025/d...
Looking forward to seeing this in the new year! Charles Dickens exhibition to shine light on powerful women in author’s life www.theguardian.com/books/2025/d...
Charles Dickens exhibition to shine light on powerful women in author’s life
Novels only ‘reinforced Victorian stereotypes’ of meek women to give readers what they wanted, says curator
www.theguardian.com
December 26, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Looking forward to seeing this in the new year! Charles Dickens exhibition to shine light on powerful women in author’s life www.theguardian.com/books/2025/d...
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"Christmas Morning". Charles Green illustration for Dickens's A Christmas Carol, Pears' Christmas Annual 1892 (Day 7 of 7).
December 24, 2025 at 3:30 PM
"Christmas Morning". Charles Green illustration for Dickens's A Christmas Carol, Pears' Christmas Annual 1892 (Day 7 of 7).
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Green's image provides an intriguing reinterpretation of John Leech's original illustration, "The Last of the Spirits". Green is slightly more faithful to Dickens's text in representing Scrooge clutching at the Spirit's robe, but the miser's name is not evident on the gravestone as in Leech.
December 23, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Green's image provides an intriguing reinterpretation of John Leech's original illustration, "The Last of the Spirits". Green is slightly more faithful to Dickens's text in representing Scrooge clutching at the Spirit's robe, but the miser's name is not evident on the gravestone as in Leech.
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"Scrooge and the Third Spirit". Charles Green illustration for Dickens's A Christmas Carol, Pears' Christmas Annual 1892 (Day 6 of 7).
December 23, 2025 at 6:05 PM
"Scrooge and the Third Spirit". Charles Green illustration for Dickens's A Christmas Carol, Pears' Christmas Annual 1892 (Day 6 of 7).
Hurrah!👏
Well the news is out! I'll be the next Editor of the Curran Index. Thrilled to have the opportunity to take the Curran forwards for the next five years. Looking forward to building on the work of Emily Middleton and Lars Atkin and making the Curran even more central to Victorian scholarhip.
The Curran Index to Nineteenth-Century Periodicals
The Curran Index to Nineteenth-Century Periodicals
www.curranindex.org
December 22, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Hurrah!👏
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"Marley's Ghost Appearing to Scrooge". Charles Green illustration for Dickens's A Christmas Carol, Pears' Christmas Annual 1892 (Day 3 of 7).
December 20, 2025 at 2:47 PM
"Marley's Ghost Appearing to Scrooge". Charles Green illustration for Dickens's A Christmas Carol, Pears' Christmas Annual 1892 (Day 3 of 7).
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"Not a knocker,--but Marley's Face!" Charles Green illustration for Dickens's A Christmas Carol, Pears' Christmas Annual 1892 (Day 2 of 7).
December 19, 2025 at 2:38 PM
"Not a knocker,--but Marley's Face!" Charles Green illustration for Dickens's A Christmas Carol, Pears' Christmas Annual 1892 (Day 2 of 7).
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Birmingham Town Hall (UK). New! Birmingham Civic Society blue plaque commemorates Charles Dickens' first public reading of A Christmas Carol in 1853.
#novella #fiction #literature #English
#novella #fiction #literature #English
December 19, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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In 1892, Charles Green contributed 28 fresh illustrations to a reprinting of Dickens's A Christmas Carol. To kick off my Christmas Carol illustration advent this year, here's his half-page title. (1/7)
December 19, 2025 at 3:51 AM
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It is with deep sadness that the Institute of English Studies reports the death of Michael Slater, MBE.
Michael was a world-leading authority on Charles Dickens, who generously shared his enthusiasm, knowledge, understanding, and promotion of all things Dickensian.
ies.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
Michael was a world-leading authority on Charles Dickens, who generously shared his enthusiasm, knowledge, understanding, and promotion of all things Dickensian.
ies.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
Michael Slater, MBE, 1936-2025
Michael Slater, MBE, 1936-2025
ies.sas.ac.uk
December 9, 2025 at 10:18 AM
It is with deep sadness that the Institute of English Studies reports the death of Michael Slater, MBE.
Michael was a world-leading authority on Charles Dickens, who generously shared his enthusiasm, knowledge, understanding, and promotion of all things Dickensian.
ies.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
Michael was a world-leading authority on Charles Dickens, who generously shared his enthusiasm, knowledge, understanding, and promotion of all things Dickensian.
ies.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
In the Great Expectations country last Sunday, how’s this for a Dickensian scene @dickensfellowhq.bsky.social
December 9, 2025 at 8:32 AM
In the Great Expectations country last Sunday, how’s this for a Dickensian scene @dickensfellowhq.bsky.social
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www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Excellent news
Excellent news
UK aims to secure agreement to rejoin Erasmus student exchange scheme
Britain quit EU programme after Brexit, when Boris Johnson claimed it did not offer good value for money
www.theguardian.com
December 1, 2025 at 8:21 PM
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Excellent news
Excellent news
A huge figure in Dickens Studies, his contribution to the field over the last half century is unsurpassed. @dickensfellowhq.bsky.social has lost a champion.
November 27, 2025 at 5:42 PM
A huge figure in Dickens Studies, his contribution to the field over the last half century is unsurpassed. @dickensfellowhq.bsky.social has lost a champion.
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The Chartists, an enduring reminder that change is possible and vitally important, even when (at the time) you don't 'win'.
The first issue of the Chartist newspaper, the Northern Star, appeared #OnThisDay 18 November 1837. Without it, Chartism would have been a far weaker thing.
www.chartistancestors.co.uk/northern-sta...
www.chartistancestors.co.uk/northern-sta...
November 18, 2025 at 8:50 AM
The Chartists, an enduring reminder that change is possible and vitally important, even when (at the time) you don't 'win'.
Hear, hear!
Lewis Goodall: Trump's attack can rescue the BBC
The BBC should use the threat of legal action to strike a blow for press freedom
🖊️ @lewisgoodall.com
The BBC should use the threat of legal action to strike a blow for press freedom
🖊️ @lewisgoodall.com
Trump's attack can rescue the BBC
The BBC should use the threat of legal action to strike a blow for press freedom
www.newstatesman.com
November 16, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Hear, hear!
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Good piece by @davidsonofaaron.bsky.social on the Prescott memo, which looks very dodgy:
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
The Prescott memo flunks the impartiality test | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 13, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Good piece by @davidsonofaaron.bsky.social on the Prescott memo, which looks very dodgy:
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
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Written before the BBC resignations but this by @arusbridger.bsky.social is really worth reading. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/...
The BBC has bigger impartiality problems than its coverage of Trump
It is the BBC’s entire governance structure–rather than individual stories–that should cause most concern
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Written before the BBC resignations but this by @arusbridger.bsky.social is really worth reading. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/...
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The departure of Tim Davie and Deborah Turness means the BBC is leaderless when it needs leadership more than ever. Where are the people at the head of the BBC standing up for it?
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The BBC is facing a coordinated, politically motivated attack. With these resignations, it has given in | Jane Martinson
The corporation should have stood up to the Telegraph, Trump and the Tories. Now, its enemies know how little it takes for it to fold, says Jane Martinson, professor of financial journalism
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 9:04 PM
The departure of Tim Davie and Deborah Turness means the BBC is leaderless when it needs leadership more than ever. Where are the people at the head of the BBC standing up for it?
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/no... A Carol Bollywood style! @dickensfellowhq.bsky.social
‘If you’re unhappy with Reform, this is a soothing balm’: Gurinder Chadha on her reboot of A Christmas Carol
She has directed cross-cultural versions of Pride and Prejudice and It’s a Wonderful Life. Now, the film-maker is reworking Dickens’s A Christmas Carol – with an Asian Scrooge
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:23 PM
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/no... A Carol Bollywood style! @dickensfellowhq.bsky.social
Jane Harrison discussing George du Maurier’s Mrs Lyon Hunter in Punch, notes her origin in Mrs Leo Hunter, famed versifier of the ‘Ode to an Expiring Frog’ in Pickwick @dickensfellowhq.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Jane Harrison discussing George du Maurier’s Mrs Lyon Hunter in Punch, notes her origin in Mrs Leo Hunter, famed versifier of the ‘Ode to an Expiring Frog’ in Pickwick @dickensfellowhq.bsky.social
Who was around the Punch table in the first two decades?
November 7, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Who was around the Punch table in the first two decades?
The wonderful @patrickleary.bsky.social begins his keynote at ‘Pictorial Punch’ at @britishlibrary.bsky.social . Great to be here with other @rs4vp.org friends!
November 7, 2025 at 12:05 PM
The wonderful @patrickleary.bsky.social begins his keynote at ‘Pictorial Punch’ at @britishlibrary.bsky.social . Great to be here with other @rs4vp.org friends!
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Farage: epic grifter
October 27, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Farage: epic grifter
Including a fascinating look at the manuscript and Dickens’s reading copy 👏
New on YouTube today: a wonderful new introduction and study guide to Dickens's 'A Christmas Carol', presented by Professor Malcolm Andrews. Watch, enjoy, like and subscribe!
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A Christmas Carol v3
YouTube video by DickensFellowship
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October 17, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Including a fascinating look at the manuscript and Dickens’s reading copy 👏