Arlo's DGAH Midterm

In addition to the books and plays he wrote, Charles Dickens was known for giving very articulate speeches and toasts.

Already famous during his lifetime, he was invited to many well-attended events where he would speak to and about important individuals among colleges, writers’ guilds, and other institutions. He often spoke at awards ceremonies and banquets too, highly praised for his eloquence.

This project analyzes a large body of his speeches, paying closest attention to word frequency trends and comparisons. I cleaned up a public domain corpus of Dickens’s speeches then focused on the gender disparities in his addresses. Below are links to the visualizations (each paired with a description) as well as a page explaining my sourcing and initial procedure.