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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Publishing Harriet Downing
Dickens published two of HD 's stories (Three Notches in the Devil's Tail and The Man with the Club Foot) in Bentley's Miscellany as by the Author of Reminiscences of a Monthly Nurse...
Publishing Adelaide Procter
In spring 1853, AP submitted a poem under the pseudonym of Mary Berwick to her family friend Charles Dickens , as editor of Household Words. It was accepted, and she became a regular contributor...
Publishing Hesba Stretton
HS 's first publication (under her birth name of Sarah Smith) was the short story The Lucky Leg in Charles Dickens 's Household Words.
It has been generally said that HS 's sister Elizabeth
Publishing Wilkie Collins
Perhaps anticipating its success, the novel was simultaneously serialised in both England (in Dickens'sAll the Year Round) and the US (in Harper's Weekly).
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press.
Publishing Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
Marguerite Blessington agreed to write a society gossip column for Dickens 's Daily News (launched on 21 January).
Molloy, Joseph Fitzgerald. The Most Gorgeous Lady Blessington. Downey.
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Publishing Hesba Stretton
Though he did not accept all of her contributions, Dickens was very encouraging of Stretton's writing. In 1859, the year of her first writing for him, he asked her to contribute to the first Christmas...
Publishing Hesba Stretton
From HS 's detailed Log Books, the scholar Jacqueline S. Bratton has managed to reconstruct much of her early years of journalism. Bratton says these typify relations between mid-century magazines and obscure writers.
Bratton, Jacqueline S. “Hesba Stretton’s Journalism”. Victorian Periodicals Review, Vol.
12
, pp. 60-70.
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Publishing Caroline Chisholm
Household Words included in its opening issue A Bundle of Emigrant's Letters, the first in a series of articles CC and Charles Dickens jointly authored to promote the Family Colonisation Loan Society .
Kiddle, Margaret, and Sir Douglas Copland. Caroline Chisholm. Melbourne University Press.
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Publishing Eliza Cook
EC contributed to other publications than her own, including Charles Dickens 's Daily News.
Gleadle, Kathryn. The Early Feminists. Macmillan.
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Publishing Mary Angela Dickens
MAD published her autobiographical essay A Child's Memories of Gad's Hill (with memories of her grandfather Charles Dickens ) in The Strand Magazine.
Dickens, Mary Angela. “A Child’s Memories of Gad’s Hill”. The Strand Magazine, Vol.
xiii
, No. 73, pp. 69-74.
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Publishing Harriet Martineau
HM seems to have considered the wide circulation of Dickens 's Household Words too good an opportunity for influence to be passed up. Among the stories she contributed were Woodruffe the Gardener, The People...
Publishing Mary Boyle
Dickens published in Household Words a story by MB which he entitled My Mahogany Friend.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Publishing Harriet Martineau
HM 's connection with Dickens 's Household Words deteriorated from late 1849. First he placed her analysis of the position of women after his own assertion that women's function was to dress well and look...
Publishing Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton
Edward Bulwer-Lytton , as the author of Rienzi, published his two-volume occult novel A Strange Story. It was first commissioned by his friend Charles Dickens for the magazine All the Year Round.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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The Athenaeum Index of Reviews and Reviewers: 1830-1870. http://replay.web.archive.org/20070714065452/http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~asp/v2/home.html.
1790 (15 February 1862): 219-21
Publishing Elizabeth Gaskell
EG 's shorter fiction was a mainstay of periodicals edited by Charles Dickens : first Household Words and then its successor, All the Year Round. His magazines also provided outlets for her longer works...

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