Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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.
Dering, Edward Heneage, and Georgiana Chatterton. Memoirs of Georgiana, Lady Chatterton. Hurst and Blackett.
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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.
Dering, Edward Heneage, and Georgiana Chatterton. Memoirs of Georgiana, Lady Chatterton. Hurst and Blackett.
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She moved and entertained...
Friends, Associates
Caroline Chisholm
Charles Dickens
paid a visit to CC
at her house in Islington.
Kiddle, Margaret, and Sir Douglas Copland. Caroline Chisholm. Melbourne University Press.
140
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.
142
Textual Production
Caroline Chisholm
From March 1852 to September 1853 a fictionalized version of CC
appeared as Mrs Jellyby in Charles Dickens
's novel Bleak House.
Kiddle, Margaret, and Sir Douglas Copland. Caroline Chisholm. Melbourne University Press.
165
Sutherland, John. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press.
71
Dickens held that charity should begin at home, and his...
Education
Agatha Christie
By the time Agatha was born, Clara Miller
believed that girls ought not to learn to read before the age of eight. Defiantly, Agatha taught herself to read at five. She eagerly devoured Lewis Carroll
Textual Production
Agatha Christie
MGM
commissioned AC
, following its successful film of her Murder She Said, to write a filmscript for Dickens
's Bleak House.
“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.
A production of The Merry Wives of Windsor by Charles Dickens
's Amateur Company
opened at the Haymarket Theatre
, with MCC
as Mistress Quickly, wearing Elizabethan costume she had made herself.
Clarke, Mary Cowden. My Long Life. Dodd, Mead.
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Friends, Associates
Mary Cowden Clarke
In addition to meeting Dickens
as a result of her theatrical activities, MCC
and her husband met William Hazlitt
through a shared duty of theatre reviewing, and she became friends with Mary Howitt
, and...
Among her verse for periodicals, MCC
contributed to Dickens
's All the Year Round (which was launched in 1859) a poem called Time's Healing, six sonnets, and two verse tales, The Yule Log and Minnie's Musings.
Clarke, Mary Cowden. My Long Life. Dodd, Mead.
165
Publishing
Caroline Clive
The name of the protagonist or hero is one CC
had herself used as a pseudonym. Her title-page has an epigraph from Sidney Smith
's letters: How little we know of what passes in each...
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.
Reception
Wilkie Collins
The popularity of The Woman in White prompted many stage adaptations. (Collins's version ran at the Olympic Theatre
, Wych Street, London, where his earlier plays The Lighthouse, The Red Vial, and...
Textual Production
Wilkie Collins
WC
's sensation novel The Woman in White began its serialization in Dickens'sAll the Year Round, following on the same page the conclusion of Dickens's own A Tale of Two Cities in instalments.