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Scholar Discusses Dickens’ Marriage in Cooper Lecture Feb. 8

Dr. Lillian Nayder, an expert on Charles Dickens and currently the chair of English at Bates College in Maine, will present a public lecture at 7 p.m. Monday, Feb. 8, on the marriage of the novelist and his wife. The lecture, “Marriage and Mesmerism: The Union of Charles and Catherine Dickens,â€� kicks off the spring schedule of the William G. Cooper, Jr., Honors Program in English. The lecture in Donaghey Student Center Room 205G is free and open to the public. A reception will follow the presentation. Zabelle Stodola, director of the ÌÇÐÄVlog´«Ã½LR Honors Program in English, said the talk will examine the fascinating but highly fraught relationship between Charles and Catherine Dickens. Nayder has published three books, most recently “Unequal Partners: Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, and Victorian Authorship,â€� published by Cornell University Press in 2002. A fourth book is forthcoming this year, also from Cornell, titled “The Other Dickens: A Life of Catherine Hogarth.â€� Nayder is also the author of many articles on Dickens and other Victorian writers. For more information, contact Stodola at 501-569-3161 or [email protected].