The Dickens Society

The Dickens Society is a non-profit organization founded on 29 December 1970 by 40 participants at the Modern Language Association Convention in New York City. The Dickens Society's purpose is "to conduct, further, and support research, publication, instruction, and general interest in the life, times, and literature of Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870)." In Dickens After Dickens (2020), Emily Bell notes, "The rise of neo-Victorian fiction in the 1960s further deepened the public interest in the author, and the establishment of the Dickens Society in 1970 represented another formal, international recognition of the value of academic study of Dickens." According to David Paroissien, "The Dickens Society was always meant to be an international" organization in contrast to the Dickens Fellowship, explicitly functioning as a "service society" that "would dedicate itself to supporting the scholarly needs of its members."

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