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Charles Dickens
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Standard Name: Dickens, Charles
Birth Name: Charles John Huffam Dickens
Indexed Name: Charles Dickens
Pseudonym: Boz
Pseudonym: Timothy Sparks
A prolific novelist, journalist, and editor of periodicals such as Household Words and All the Year Round, CD
crucially shaped Victorian fiction both by developing it as a dialogical, multi-plotted, and socially aware form and by his innovations in publishing serially. As a novelist he worked across a range of genres, including the bildungsroman, picaresque, Newgate, sensation and detective fiction, and usually with satiric or socially critical force. He was loved by readers for his humour, grotesquerie, action, and vigour. An influential public figure and phenomenally successful lecturer during his lifetime, his work continues to be central to popular understandings of nineteenth-century England, and in particular London.
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Birth | Daisy Ashford | Margaret Mary Julia Ashford (who wrote as DA
) was born at Elm Lodge in Petersham, Surrey, a house once inhabited by Dickens
and now the home of her paternal grandmother and her aunt... |
Birth | Celia Moss | CM
was born at Portsea, a waterfront area of Portsmouth in Hampshire (where Charles Dickens
had been born a few years before her), the fourth in a family of twelve children. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. |
Cultural formation | Mary Angela Dickens | MAD
was born into a large English family of writers and artists headed by her grandfather Charles Dickens
. Accounts of her life document her close relationships with several generations of paternal and maternal family... |
Cultural formation | Adelaide Procter | AP
may have converted to Roman Catholicism
from Anglicanism by this date; certainly she had by 1851. Sources conflict on the date of AP
's conversion, most of them dating it in 1851. Bessie Rayner Parkes |
death | Mary Angela Dickens | MAD
died in Hitchin, Hertfordshire, exactly 136 years after her grandfather Charles Dickens
was born. Christodoulou, Glenn A. “The Grave of Mary Angela Dickens Rediscovered”. The Dickensian, No. 489, pp. 42 -43. 42 |
Education | Viola Meynell | After leaving school at sixteen, VM
read widely on her own, especially English authors: George Eliot
, Dickens
, George Meredith
, Arnold Bennett
, John Galsworthy
, and Thomas Hardy
. MacKenzie, Raymond N. A Critical Biography of English Novelist Viola Meynell, 1885-1956. Edwin Mellen, 2002. 61, 65 |
Education | Anita Brookner | AB
's father urged her to read Dickens
, for the purpose of understanding what the English were like, and also of understanding the unfairness of things. Skinner, John. The Fictions of Anita Brookner: Illusions of Romance. Macmillan, 1992. 5 |
Education | Harriet Shaw Weaver | HSW
's family encouraged her in the regular pursuits of a young, middle-class Victorian woman. From her father she inherited an enthusiasm for poetry—she especially liked Shakespeare
, Coleridge
, and Whitman
—and she read... |
Education | Louisa May Alcott | LMA
frequently attended lectures in Boston, and was present for the speeches of both William Makepeace Thackeray
and Charles Dickens
. Though she adored Dickens's writings, she judged him in person to be an... |
Education | Frances Isabella Duberly | After her mother died she was sent to a boarding school at High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire (which she later remembered, perhaps snobbishly, for the lack of good company). By one means or the other she... |
Education | Sarah Grand | |
Education | Emma Marshall | At a very early age Emma Martin could recite See'st thou my home is where yon woods are waving by Felicia Hemans
. Marshall, Beatrice. Emma Marshall. Seeley, 1900. 8 |
Education | Maya Angelou | Marguerite Johnson had already become a voracious reader, both of Black writers and of canonical dead white males. Shakespeare
, she wrote later, was my first white love. Angelou, Maya. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. Heinemann New Windmill Series, 1995. 12 |
Education | L. M. Montgomery | LMM
attended a one-room schoolhouse across the road from her grandparents' farmhouse, completing her time there in 1892. The following year, she went to the Prince of Wales College
in Charlottetown for teacher training. Her... |
Education | Doris Lessing |
Timeline
February 1778
Franz Anton Mesmer
, inventor of animal magnetism, arrived in Paris to promote his theory.
15 February 1791
The actress Harriet Pye Esten
(daughter of novelist Anna Maria Bennett
) gave a highly successful recitation at Covent Garden Theatre
of William Collins
's Ode on the Passions.
3 June 1829
Publisher Henry Colburn
went into partnership with Richard Bentley (1794 - 1871)
(who, in order to do this, had just dissolved the partnership between himself and his brother Samuel Bentley
as printers).
1830
William Bradbury
and Frederick Mullet Evans
went into partnership and established the publishing firm of Bradbury and Evans
in London.
4 February 1832
1833
Edward Lloyd
, trained as a stenographer at a Mechanics Institute, established his own publishing firm with the appearance of Lloyd's Stenography, written, published, and promoted by himself.
January 1835
John Macrone
established his own publishing business at 3 St James Street, London.
4 November 1836
Richard Bentley
(1794-1871) signed an agreement with Dickens
to edit his new monthly periodical, Bentley's Miscellany.
3 May 1841
The London Library
, established by Thomas Carlyle
with Harriet Martineau
, Dickens
, Thackeray
, and others, first opened its doors.
March 1843
The Society of British Authors
was formed.
1844
The Ragged School Union
was founded and began opening schools in the slums of great cities.
1851
Johann
and Bertha Ronge
established at Hampstead the first kindergarten in England, a school designed to foster physical and mental development in young children.
2 September 1852
The Manchester Free Library
, the first major British public lending library, opened in Manchester.
28 August 1857
The Divorce and Matrimonial Causes Act, also known as the Divorce Act, made divorce more readily available, but on unequal grounds for women and men.
4 June 1859
Household Words merged with Charles Dickens
's new periodical All the Year Round.