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.
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...
Material Conditions of Writing
Mary Angela Dickens
The journal All the Year Round, founded by MAD
's grandfather
and then edited by her father, was one of the first and most significant platforms for her short stories and serialized novels. Other...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Mary Angela Dickens
She reflects on her experiences at Gad's Hill Place, the last home of her grandfather Charles Dickens
, which became her own immediate family's home for several years. The first-person essay contains MD's fragmented...
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 Production
Monica Dickens
Monica Dickens
wrote a Foreword to The London of Charles Dickens, published by the London Transport
Executive for the Dickens centenary.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Family and Intimate relationships
Monica Dickens
MD
was a great-grand-daughter of the novelist Charles Dickens
.
Publishing
Monica Dickens
She had one further piece of good fortune in meeting with Compton Mackenzie
(whose grandfather had been friends with Charles Dickens), who read her book in proof, tidied up a few loose utterances, and did...
Family and Intimate relationships
Mary Angela Dickens
MAD
attended the last public reading by her grandfather Charles Dickens
, held at St James's Hall, London three months before he died. He performed excerpts from A Christmas Carol and Pickwick Papers at the...
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...
death
Mary Angela Dickens
MAD
died in Hitchin, Hertfordshire, exactly 136 years after her grandfather Charles Dickens
was born.
Christodoulou, Glenn A. “The Grave of Mary Angela Dickens Rediscovered”. The Dickensian, Vol.
109
, No. 489, pp. 42-43.
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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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Textual Production
Mary Angela Dickens
MAD
published Dickens' Dream Children, a volume of stories adapted for young readers about young characters in Charles Dickens
's fiction.
Dickens, Mary Angela. Dickens’ Dream Children. Raphael Tuck & Sons.
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Author summary
Mary Angela Dickens
Between the late 1880s and mid-1920s MAD
produced writing that was, like her life, shaped by her relationships with family members and her roles in the literary venues they established. Her body of work is...
Cultural formation
Mary Angela Dickens
MAD
was born into a large English family of writers and artists headed by her grandfather Charles Dickens
. Accounts of her life document her close relationships with several generations of paternal and maternal family...
Family and Intimate relationships
Mary Angela Dickens
Elizabeth's father, Mary Angela's other grandfather, Frederick Mullet Evans, co-founded the printing firm Bradbury and Evans
, whose innovative use of a steam-driven rotary press brought it clients including the Illustrated London News and...
