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 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 Harriette Wilson
The book itself opens with an image presenting HW 's writing as showmanship: Lions and Tigers just arrived for the coronation. Walk in ladies and gentlemen. . . . Only six francs, to see all...
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 Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna
Stowe 's introduction praises CET 's works as a safe and desirable acquisition in every christian [sic] and family library in our country.
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, and Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna. “Introduction”. The Works of Charlotte Elizabeth, Dodd, p. v - vii.
vii
She compares CET 's descriptions of factory life to those of...
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...
Residence Alice Meynell
Describing the situation at the Thompsons' Italian villa, Dickens writes: Coming upon them unawares, I found T[hompson] with a pointed beard, smoking a great German pipe, in a pair of slippers; the two little girls...
Residence E. M. Delafield
Charles Dickens used to live in a house across the street.
McCullen, Maurice. E. M. Delafield. Twayne.
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Many creative artists lived in this neighbourhood, with its focal point of St George the Martyr, Queen's Square. The area was distinct...
Residence Rumer Godden
Though she still found it hard to write in the country, RG called this the happiest house we have had.
Godden, Rumer. A House with Four Rooms. Macmillan.
170
Three years later she suddenly moved again; she missed London, and felt her elder...
Residence Mary Angela Dickens
When MAD was nearly eight years old, her father purchased Gad's Hill Place in Kent, the last home of his own father Charles Dickens (who had died two months before this), for £8,647 at...
Residence Gillian Slovo
Her grandmother and elder sister travelled separately; her father, already in England, had been waiting on tenterhooks for their arrival. GS saw England through the old-world lens of Charles Dickens and Jane Austen;
Slovo, Gillian. Every Secret Thing: My Family, My Country. Little, Brown.
103
she...
Reception Ellen Wood
At the time of her death, EW remained a highly popular writer: her works were translated into many languages, and by 1895 their sale in Australia was said to have exceeded that of Dickens ...

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