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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.
Connections
| Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Textual Production | Matilda Betham-Edwards | She herself says the poem appeared in Household Words, but apparently she misremembered, since the oldDictionary of National Biography explicitly contradicted her. Dickens paid her five pounds for it. Five pounds for the... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Isabella Bird | She used her royalties to buy boats for impoverished Scottish fishermen. |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Isa Blagden | Poems also includes IB
's ten-stanza tribute to Charles Dickens
, whom she reveres as a second Shakespeare and as England's crowning sheaf . . . A priceless harvest claimed by God. Blagden, Isa, and Alfred Austin. Poems. William Blackwood and Sons. 134, 136 |
| Occupation | Dorothy Boulger | Dorothy Havers (later DB
) worked at All The Year Round (which, since the death of Charles Dickens
, was under the editorship of his son and namesake). Who Was Who. A. and C. Black. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
| Friends, Associates | Mary Boyle | MB
met Charles Dickens
; they became friends, and she subsequently acted in some of his private theatricals. Ackroyd, Peter. Dickens. HarperCollins. 576 |
| 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/. |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Boyle | Her elder sister, Caroline Boyle
, was nicknamed Caddy
. Boyle, Mary. Mary Boyle. Her Book. Editor Boyle, Sir Courtenay Edmund, E. P. Dutton; John Murray. 11-12 MB
's sister Caroline was the one to bear the nickname The Hon, not Mary as Dickens
thought. Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. |
| Friends, Associates | Mary Boyle | According to Dickens
's biographer Peter Ackroyd
, he followed up his initial meeting with MB
by sending her cousinan extravagant missive of love about her . . . complete with a heart and... |
| Education | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | Mary Elizabeth read early and voraciously, polishing off Anna Maria Hall
's three-volume Marian when she was only seven. By nine she was reading Scott
and Dickens
. One of the family servants introduced her... |
| Wealth and Poverty | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | She left a remarkably large estate for a Victorian woman writer. Despite the high style in which she lived, she was reportedly able from early in her career to save her literary earnings, since money... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | MEB
was encouraged to write from an early age, particularly by her mother. She would later recall how when she was eight and had just learned to write, her godfather bought her a beautiful brand... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | MEB
recalled the publisher's desire for a blend of the human interest and genial humour of Dickens
with the plot-weaving of G. W. M. Reynolds
. Braddon, Mary Elizabeth et al. “My First Novel”. The Trail of the Serpent, edited by Chris Willis and Chris Willis, Modern Library, pp. 415-27. 422 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | Waters argues that MEB
ought not to be condemned for clichés that she herself helped to establish. Rather we should examine them and the genre of the detective or sensation novel as an index of... |
| Literary responses | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | His article, Sensation Novelists: Miss Braddon, which covered seven novels she had published since 1862, made a famous personal attack in asserting that her work evidenced familiarity with a very low type of female... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | Despite its sensational plot and purple prose, MEB
's first attempt at infusing a touch of poetry and the subjective into her writing through character painting Wolff, Robert Lee. Sensational Victorian. Garland. 161 |
Timeline
2 July 1859: William Bradbury and Frederick Mullet Evans...
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2 July 1859
William Bradbury
and Frederick Mullet Evans
began publishing a sixpenny periodical entitled Once a Week.
7 October 1865: Governor Edward Eyre ruthlessly suppressed...
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7 October 1865
Governor Edward Eyre
ruthlessly suppressed a rebellion which began at Morant Bay in Jamaica.
August 1868: A week after the death of US Jewish writer...
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August 1868
A week after the death of US Jewish writer Adah Isaacs Menken
(famous in London as a near-naked daredevil rider on stage in Mazeppa; or, the Wild Horse of Tartary), her poetry volume Infelicia...
By 17 April 1869: Rosa Mulholland's Hester's History, her first...
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By 17 April 1869
Rosa Mulholland
's Hester's History, her first novel published under her own name, was both influenced and in due course appreciated by Charles Dickens
.
1872: The Dolly Varden hat, named for the coquette...
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1872
The Dolly Varden hat, named for the coquette of Dickens
's Barnaby Rudge, made its first appearance.
1872-1874: John Forster, who is recognized as the first...
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1872-1874
John Forster
, who is recognized as the first professional biographer of the nineteenth century, published his biography of Dickens, in three volumes.
April 1879: James Murray—editor since 1 March of what...
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April 1879
James Murray
—editor since 1 March of what was to become the Oxford English Dictionary—issued an Appeal for readers to supply illustrative quotations.
30 April 1881: Charles Dickens's son, who shared his name,...
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30 April 1881
1891: Mary Dickens (grand-daughter of Charles Dickens)...
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1891
Mary Dickens
(grand-daughter of Charles Dickens
) published her first novel, Cross Currents, a story of the conflict between love and career in a talented actress.
July1905: Household Words, founded by Charles Dickens,...
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July1905
Household Words, founded by Charles Dickens
, ceased publication with volume 49 of its continuation dating from 13 April 1881. In its current form it was once more a monthly (after a period as a weekly).
5 January 1907: Baroness Angela Burdett-Coutts (who died...
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5 January 1907
Baroness Angela Burdett-Coutts
(who died of bronchitis on 30 December 1906) became the last person laid to rest at Westminster Abbey.
1920: The number of Miners' Institutes (which included...
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1920
The number of Miners' Institutes
(which included Miners' Libraries
) increased following the decision regularly to supplement the levy financing them from the national Miners' Welfare Fund
.
February 1959: Fings Ain't Wot They Used t'be, a musical...
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February 1959
Fings Ain't Wot They Used t'be, a musical about gangsters, molls, and tarts, was created by formerly criminal writer Frank Norman
, composer Lionel Bart
, and the company at Joan Littlewood
's Theatre Royal, Stratford East
.
1996: US punk writer Kathy Acker published Pussy,...
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1996
US punk writer Kathy Acker
published Pussy, King of the Pirates, a feminist-pornographic reworking of Robert Louis Stevenson
's Treasure Island in which the treasure-seekers are a band of women pirates.
14 July 2006: The Bow Street Magistrates Court, one of...
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14 July 2006
The Bow Street Magistrates Court
, one of London's most famous courts, closed after dispensing justice for 267 years.
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