* A wonderful collection of 200th birthday tributes to Dickens, along with many links to related pages and sites:
Gina's
Dickensblog
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* Website of the international Dickens Fellowship with headquarters in London. Click on "Branches" to contact any of the 60 odd worldwide: Dickens
Fellowship
* Extensive website offering much useful information on Dickens's life and works:
David Perdue's Dickens Page
* The charming story from Kate Wiggins, the author of nineteenth century children's classics including Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, of how she as a child -- already a great lover of Dickens's books -- met him on a train, by chance and her own assertiveness, and had a long conversation with him, one of the most memorable of her life:
A Child's Journey with Dickens
* Here is a wonderful, interactive chronological presentation of Dickens's life by date for each year. It's a great tool for scholars, but even for the more casual reader it gives a real sense of what was going on in his life day by day. For instance, by clicking on the years of CD's childhood, one can get a new understanding of what a tumultous period it was for him after his family's debts came to a crisis point when he was twelve years old. This is an ongoing work of years, only complete into the 1840s (except for his death year of 1870, which has been done) but what a contribution to our understanding of what Dickens's life must have "felt like"! Check it out:
Dickens's Life Day by Day: http://www.dickenslive.com/
Below is an overview of typical women's lives in the Victorian period. Makes an interesting comparison to today. Of course, as Dickens so well portrayed, there were many women who rebelled in large or small ways against these standards and created their own manner of navigating life. Contributed by young Dickens scholar Elena Marcellino:
Fashion and Courtship in The Victorian Era:
https://www.fragrancex.com/fragrance-information/fashion-and-courtship-in-the-victorian-era.html