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Website: www.thefriendsofdickens.org

Address : P.O.Box 2743, 450 Lexington Ave, New York, N. Y. 10163

Regular meetings: First Saturday of every month

Executive Director: Suyapa Quinn
President: Joe Fodor
Newsletter editor: James Armstrong, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Secretary: Carrie Lee, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

The Friends of Dickens New York (FODNY) is a literary, cultural, and educational organization dedicated to the works of Charles Dickens. Our motto is FUN, FRIENDSHIP AND LEARNING! Fun, because we get together regularly to read, dramatize, and discuss the works of Charles Dickens. Friendship, because the group encourages and cements unity, understanding and cooperation among people. Learning, because great literature adds to our knowledge and understanding of one another and the world.

The Worcester Dickens Fellowship in Massachusetts has been flourishing for over half a century. Originally founded in London in 1902, the Dickens Fellowship's aim was to "knit" together in a common bond of friendship lovers of the great master of humour and pathos, Charles Dickens. We in the Worcester Fellowship have thrived on the traditions of fellowship and scholarship.

Officers and Committees

President Richard Fenton
Vice President Robert Steele
Treasurer Michael Badger
Corresponding Secretary Anita Fenton
Recording Secretary Carrie Corcoran
Membership Kathy McFarland
Skits Joan Townsend (Chair), Joel Brattin, Robert Steele
Holiday Luncheon Kit Polga, Kathy McFarland

2025-2026 Program

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Regular meeting venue:   2pm on the first Saturday of every month from March to November in the staff room of Hagley Community College
Contact: Annabel Gormack – This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
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Welcome to the Christchurch Branch of the Dickens Fellowship. All public are very welcome at our meetings. You do not need to have read Dickens or be an afficionado to enjoy the meetings. We have members from all walks of life and all ages. Every year, the Fellowship studies one of Dickens' major works, and several minor ones. One member of the Fellowship presents a programme each month, in which a section of the novel studied is covered, by sketches and readings. We also have video afternoons, mid-year and Christmas parties, and other forms of entertainment.

We are due to celebrate our 90^th year as a branch this coming Saturday June 19^th. 

This year (2025), our major novel for study is Little Dorrit and we will also be studying George Silverman's Explanation and No Thoroughfare at the end of the year.

Newsletter 2025

This issue and all back copies can be found on our website christchurchdickensfellowship.nz 

Website: www.dickens.jp/index-e.html

Regular meeting venue: Our AGM takes place at a different venue every year.
President:  Yasuhiko Matsumoto,This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., +81 4 7124 1501
Vice President: Fumie Tamai, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Although, at present, most members of the Japan Branch are researchers, teachers or students of universities in Japan, membership is open to anyone who loves the person and works of Charles Dickens. The main branch activities include AGM in October and the annual publication of 'The Japan Branch Bulletin'. Visit our website where you can watch the videos from our past meetings and read our members’ essays and articles (some of them are written in English) on Dickens.