Cathy Waters
Professor Emerita of Victorian Literature and Print Culture, Dickensian and long-distance walker.
- Reposted by Cathy WatersObit 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...
- Reposted by Cathy Waters"Christmas Morning". Charles Green illustration for Dickens's A Christmas Carol, Pears' Christmas Annual 1892 (Day 7 of 7).
- Reposted by Cathy WatersGreen'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.
- Reposted by Cathy Waters"Scrooge and the Third Spirit". Charles Green illustration for Dickens's A Christmas Carol, Pears' Christmas Annual 1892 (Day 6 of 7).
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- Reposted by Cathy Waters"Marley's Ghost Appearing to Scrooge". Charles Green illustration for Dickens's A Christmas Carol, Pears' Christmas Annual 1892 (Day 3 of 7).
- Reposted by Cathy Waters"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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- Reposted by Cathy WatersIt 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/...
- In the Great Expectations country last Sunday, how’s this for a Dickensian scene @dickensfellowhq.bsky.social
- Reposted by Cathy Waterswww.theguardian.com/education/20... 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.
- RIP Michael Slater www.bbk.ac.uk/about-us/fel...
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- Hear, hear!
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- Reposted by Cathy WatersThe 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/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
- 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!
- Reposted by Cathy WatersFarage: 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! youtu.be/UbJym4h-fz8?...
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- Reposted by Cathy WatersAt tonight’s meeting of Central DF, at The Charterhouse, London, author Alan Humm will be talking about his novel The Sparkler, published in 2024. All welcome
- 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
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- Great shout out for Nellie Bly @rs4vp.org
- 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
- And here are the remains of the Pavilion Hotel, Folkestone, celebrated by #Dickens in his essay’Out of Town’ for Household Words.
- 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.
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- Incisive and insightful as ever 👏
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- 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.
- It is a bumper issue and a fitting tribute to mark the centenary of the wonderful Charles Dickens Museum in Doughty Street.🎉
- An curious anticipation of the much later trials of John Jasper @dickensfellowhq.bsky.social
- A new book about another source for ‘Oliver Twist’ that will interest @dickensfellowhq.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...
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- Reposted by Cathy WatersStill time to apply!
- 📣Applications still open for the Senate House Library Visiting Fellowships 📣 In 2025-6 up to two awards of £1500 will be allocated to support a fellowship of up to two weeks. Deadline: 15 September 2025 More info 👇 tinyurl.com/ykudv9tn
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- @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
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- 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
- Listen up, weaklings: there’s no Epstein client list. Why are you so obsessed? Yours, Donald J Trump | Marina Hyde on top form! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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- 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.
- 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
- I am shocked to hear this very sad news. Dickensians around the globe will miss Simon enormously. Such a wonderful scholar and a lovely man. @dickenssociety.bsky.social @dickensfellowhq.bsky.social
- Priti Joshi channeling her ‘inner John Jordan’ in opening the RSVP Planning Retreat in Chicago @rs4vp.org
- Reposted by Cathy Waters'Corner Shop, Canning Town' (1994) by Doreen Fletcher doreenfletcherartist.com 👤: @doreenfletcher.bsky.social
