Cathy Waters
@catherinefaver.bsky.social
Professor Emerita of Victorian Literature and Print Culture, Dickensian and long-distance walker.
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!
I didn’t know Neo-Impressionists did bourgeois interior scenes commenting ironically on the C19 domestic ideal, but there are two superb examples by Paul Signac in the Radical Harmony exhibition now on at @thenationalgallery.bsky.social
September 19, 2025 at 4:54 PM
I didn’t know Neo-Impressionists did bourgeois interior scenes commenting ironically on the C19 domestic ideal, but there are two superb examples by Paul Signac in the Radical Harmony exhibition now on at @thenationalgallery.bsky.social
Another candidate for the original of Joe Gargery’s forge in Great Expectations - this one in the high street of High Halstow, just opposite Forge Lane @dickensfellowhq.bsky.social
September 11, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Another candidate for the original of Joe Gargery’s forge in Great Expectations - this one in the high street of High Halstow, just opposite Forge Lane @dickensfellowhq.bsky.social
Here’s another #Dickens landmark I didn’t know about @dickensfellowhq.bsky.social The British Lion in Folkestone has a Dickens Room where I was told he wrote ‘Little Dorrit’ while he was staying for the summer at Albion Villas.
September 10, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Here’s another #Dickens landmark I didn’t know about @dickensfellowhq.bsky.social The British Lion in Folkestone has a Dickens Room where I was told he wrote ‘Little Dorrit’ while he was staying for the summer at Albion Villas.
The ‘Showtime’ exhibition now on at the dickensmuseum.com/blogs/all-ev... has playbills, annotated copies of the scripts of Dickens’s reading texts and interviews with adaptors and performers of Dickens and his works and more.
September 4, 2025 at 5:30 PM
The ‘Showtime’ exhibition now on at the dickensmuseum.com/blogs/all-ev... has playbills, annotated copies of the scripts of Dickens’s reading texts and interviews with adaptors and performers of Dickens and his works and more.
@lesliehowsam.bsky.social I was pleased to see Eliza Orme heading the list in the brief history of women in the legal profession in the UK in the programme notes for Susie Miller’s new play, ‘Inter Alia’, now on at the NT
July 30, 2025 at 1:09 PM
@lesliehowsam.bsky.social I was pleased to see Eliza Orme heading the list in the brief history of women in the legal profession in the UK in the programme notes for Susie Miller’s new play, ‘Inter Alia’, now on at the NT
Gail Marshall introducing the 1850s volume in CUP’s Nineteenth Century Literature in Transition series at the launch event in Cambridge.
July 24, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Gail Marshall introducing the 1850s volume in CUP’s Nineteenth Century Literature in Transition series at the launch event in Cambridge.
‘Curtis’s Botanical Magazine’, the world's longest-running, continuously published botanical periodical, bringing gardening to the masses, on display at ‘Unearthed: The Power of Gardening’ events.bl.uk/exhibitions/... until 10 August @rs4vp.org
July 23, 2025 at 3:55 PM
‘Curtis’s Botanical Magazine’, the world's longest-running, continuously published botanical periodical, bringing gardening to the masses, on display at ‘Unearthed: The Power of Gardening’ events.bl.uk/exhibitions/... until 10 August @rs4vp.org
Lydia Craig presents her discovery of a series of poems by Kate Perugini in the ‘Pall Mall Magazine’ that provide new evidence of her knowledge of a legacy-threatening secret about Dickens’s life. @dickenssociety.bsky.social @dickensfellowhq.bsky.social @rs4vp.org
July 17, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Lydia Craig presents her discovery of a series of poems by Kate Perugini in the ‘Pall Mall Magazine’ that provide new evidence of her knowledge of a legacy-threatening secret about Dickens’s life. @dickenssociety.bsky.social @dickensfellowhq.bsky.social @rs4vp.org
Diana Archibald presents our wonderful host and brilliant Dickensian Natalie McKnight with Dickensian Society’s award for outstanding service.
July 15, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Diana Archibald presents our wonderful host and brilliant Dickensian Natalie McKnight with Dickensian Society’s award for outstanding service.
Location, dates and theme for next year’s Dickens Society Symposium are announced. Let’s avoid a clash with @dickensfellowhq.bsky.social next year! @dickenssociety.bsky.social
July 15, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Location, dates and theme for next year’s Dickens Society Symposium are announced. Let’s avoid a clash with @dickensfellowhq.bsky.social next year! @dickenssociety.bsky.social
Ed Guiliano introducing Bob Patten with suitably Dickensian flourishes before beginning his interview with him @dickenssociety.bsky.social symposium, Boston University
July 15, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Ed Guiliano introducing Bob Patten with suitably Dickensian flourishes before beginning his interview with him @dickenssociety.bsky.social symposium, Boston University
Priti Joshi channeling her ‘inner John Jordan’ in opening the RSVP Planning Retreat in Chicago @rs4vp.org
July 9, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Priti Joshi channeling her ‘inner John Jordan’ in opening the RSVP Planning Retreat in Chicago @rs4vp.org
Great to celebrate the launch of ‘The Verse of Charles Dickens’ and ‘The Plays of Charles Dickens’ with their respective editors - Lydia Craig and @emilyjlm.bsky.social - and - Joanna Hofer-Robinson and @peteorford.bsky.social - at the Charles Dickens Museum.👏
May 21, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Great to celebrate the launch of ‘The Verse of Charles Dickens’ and ‘The Plays of Charles Dickens’ with their respective editors - Lydia Craig and @emilyjlm.bsky.social - and - Joanna Hofer-Robinson and @peteorford.bsky.social - at the Charles Dickens Museum.👏
Who knew? Dickens gave us the word ‘butterfingers’
May 16, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Who knew? Dickens gave us the word ‘butterfingers’
Gyles Brandreth remembering Dickens in Broadstairs at the 50th birthday dinner of the Dickens Pickwick Club in London @dickensfellowhq.bsky.social
May 16, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Gyles Brandreth remembering Dickens in Broadstairs at the 50th birthday dinner of the Dickens Pickwick Club in London @dickensfellowhq.bsky.social
I’m in London for a dinner celebrating the 50th birthday of the Pickwick Club and staying at a hotel in Smithfield. My window looks onto Cock Lane. Will I see the ghost, I wonder? @dickensfellowhq.bsky.social
May 16, 2025 at 2:51 PM
I’m in London for a dinner celebrating the 50th birthday of the Pickwick Club and staying at a hotel in Smithfield. My window looks onto Cock Lane. Will I see the ghost, I wonder? @dickensfellowhq.bsky.social
Juxtaposition: Cruikshank’s ‘All the World Going to the Great Exhibition of 1851’ and Hiroshige’s woodcut of crowds on pilgrimage to see the treasures at the Enoshima Benzaitem shrine of the same year - currently on display in ‘Hiroshima: Artist of the Open Road’ at the British Museum
May 14, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Juxtaposition: Cruikshank’s ‘All the World Going to the Great Exhibition of 1851’ and Hiroshige’s woodcut of crowds on pilgrimage to see the treasures at the Enoshima Benzaitem shrine of the same year - currently on display in ‘Hiroshima: Artist of the Open Road’ at the British Museum
Helen Howe reads from ‘Little Dorrit’ in the church which is known by her name. Little Dorrit appears below St George in the East window, bottom right hand corner, in prayer, her poke bonnet behind her like angels wings.
March 19, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Helen Howe reads from ‘Little Dorrit’ in the church which is known by her name. Little Dorrit appears below St George in the East window, bottom right hand corner, in prayer, her poke bonnet behind her like angels wings.
Dickens Fellowship President, Lucinda Dickens Hawksley, begins an afternoon of readings to raise funds for the restoration of Little Dorrit’s vestry at St George the Martyr, Borough High Street @dickensfellowhq.bsky.social
March 19, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Dickens Fellowship President, Lucinda Dickens Hawksley, begins an afternoon of readings to raise funds for the restoration of Little Dorrit’s vestry at St George the Martyr, Borough High Street @dickensfellowhq.bsky.social
‘Dickens at Doughty St’, marking 100th anniversary of the CD Museum, is full of treasures, including Cruikshank’s early sketch of Fagin, first copy of Daily News, Beard’s medical notes during D’s final reading tour + Rosina Bulwer-Lytton’s mock playbill. Open now!
March 6, 2025 at 1:48 PM
‘Dickens at Doughty St’, marking 100th anniversary of the CD Museum, is full of treasures, including Cruikshank’s early sketch of Fagin, first copy of Daily News, Beard’s medical notes during D’s final reading tour + Rosina Bulwer-Lytton’s mock playbill. Open now!
Caroline Lucas discusses the importance of Dickens and other C19 writers advocating social reform for reclaiming a national story for England, at Faversham Literary Festival.
March 1, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Caroline Lucas discusses the importance of Dickens and other C19 writers advocating social reform for reclaiming a national story for England, at Faversham Literary Festival.