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Victorian Studies News & Events
News and events from across the University, of interest to Victorian Studies staff and students.
Professor Joanne Shattock meets Her Majesty
Professor Joanne Shattock met Her Majesty the Queen on 14 February 2012, at a reception at Buckingham Palace marking the Bicentenary of the birth of Charles Dickens.
A Tale of Two Cities: Serial Reading Group Launched
Our serial reading group for A Tale of Two Cities has begun! This is a partnership between the Victorian Studies Centre, Dickens Journals Online and Dickens fans everywhere.
Catch up with the blog at: http://dickensataleoftwocities.wordpress.com/
Please visit the Dickens Bicentennial pages for details of other events happening throughout this important celebratory year.
New illustrated version of Dickens's life to mark novelist's birth bicentenary
Expanded biography by University of Leicester academic is one of the 'best books on Dickens'.
Great expectations: Dickens events on the way
Celebrating the bicentenary with conferences aplenty.
Spring Seminar Series 2012 details announced
Details of next year's Spring Seminar Series have just been announced.
Although the series will officially begin on 25 January, there will also be a one-off event (with the Centre for American Studies) on 7 December, when Professor Leslie Butler (Dartmouth College, New Hampshire) will be speaking on 'The Suffrage Network: Transatlantic Exchange and Mid-Nineteenth-Century Reform Thought'.
