A notice from Bert G. Hornback :

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The second annual Dickens Symposium sponsored by the Dickens Society will be held on the campus of Bellarmine College in Louisville, Kentucky, on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, 26 to 28 September 1997.

Louisville has two Dickens connections. One, Kate and Charles Dickens stopped in Louisville twice on their first American trip--and Dickens praised the Galt House as one of the finest hotels he had seen in America. (There's a new Galt House, near the historical marker commemorating his initial visit. Enough said. . . .) And two, Louisville was the home of William F. Norton, alias Daniel Quilp. Norton was a quirky but noble philanthropist who gve a great deal to Louisville--including a lot of scathing criticism. He chose Quilp as his alias "because nobody else would want it."

Papers should be no longer than ten double-spaced typewritten pages, readable in twenty minutes. There are no restrictions as to subject, so long as it is Dickens and his works. Papers will be scheduled to allow time for discussion after each presentation. Deadline for submission of papers or abstracts is 31 March 1997. Abstracts should be accompanied by at least one page of sample text. No e-mail submissions, please; fax submissions to (502)452-6971.

All correspondence--including registrations--should be addressed to the symposium chair, Bert Hornback, at the Department of English, Bellarmine College, Newburg Road, Louisville, Kentucky 40205. The facsimile number is (502)452-6971; e-mail "bghorn01@homer.louisville.edu".

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