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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Textual Production Queen Victoria
Initially, Victoria was unreceptive to the idea of widespread publication of her journal extracts, arguing (according to Helps in his Editor's Preface) that she had no skill whatever in authorship; that these were, for the...
Textual Features Dinah Mulock Craik
This original fairy tale features the Prince Dolor, who is crippled as an infant, deprived of his rule by a Prince Regent uncle, and brought up in miserable conditions. A fairy godmother gives him a...
Textual Features Janet Hamilton
The vigour and originality of her voice on women's issues requires greater recognition, ranging as it does from the satiric Crinoline, to Contrasted Scenes from Real Life which juxtaposes the earthly lot of Lady Emily Hay
Textual Features Pamela Hansford Johnson
These novels reflect PHJ 's political commitment and the urgent ideological spirit of the later thirties. Their plots set out to demonstrate the interconnectedness of the apparently separated social classes—as do those of Dickens —by...
Textual Features Sarah Harriet Burney
These letters show her to be a rewarding, informal, up-to-the-minute literary critic. She kept remarkably up to date on the topic of women's writing, showing herself consistently receptive to new styles and new ideas. She...
Textual Features Anne Mozley
The review of Adam Bede is indeed most perceptive as well as detailed. AM begins by noticing how novels have been expanding their empire: how many have been added to their readership by the newer...
Textual Features Mary Angela Dickens
In his preface, Father Galton remarks on MAD 's specific connection to her grandfather Charles Dickens and their shared sensibilities: The author is the happy owner of one of the great names in our literature...
Textual Features Pamela Hansford Johnson
The tone of this novel and its sequels is savagely satirical. It partakes in the venerable tradition of burlesquing the affectations of the literary world, but for PHJ it was something entirely new. The eponymous...
Textual Features Carol Rumens
Her title comes from the opinion (propounded in the closing sequence, On the Spectrum) that people characterized by varying degrees and kinds of what is popularly called autism have a particular affinity with animals...
Textual Features James Malcolm Rymer
JMR 's study of mainstream novelists like Dickens is apparent in Ada, in his borrowing from texts like Oliver Twist. Ada is an orphan who, like Oliver, captivates the reader in her quest...
Textual Features Frances Sarah Hoey
Miriam finds local gossip that Florence is attempting to entrap her father ludicrous, and describes it as a comic parallel to Vanity Fair, with Florence not as Becky Sharp but as Amelia having to...
Textual Features Lady Margaret Sackville
Austen , she says, was the first really modern novelist . . . more modern in a sense than Dickens or Thackeray .
Austen, Jane. “Introduction”. Jane Austen, edited by Lady Margaret Sackville, Herbert & Daniel, p. ix - xvi.
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This publication, together with the anthology, suggests that LMS was pursuing...
Textual Features Margaret Forster
The novel, entitled Green Dusk for Dreams, drew on her own experience as an au pair girl in Bordeaux. At different times she called it Dickens ian
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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and Balzac ian. The protagonist...
Textual Features Dorothy L. Sayers
Here she mounts a powerful appreciation of the novel, both for its importance in the development of the detective story (all the clues, she says, are clearly conveyed to the reader, something which seldom happened...
Textual Features Joan Aiken
Dickens , whose novels JA and her sister heard their mother reading aloud when they were children, is a shaping influence on these works: their teeming characters (with names like Miss Slighcarp and in later...

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