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.
In a prefatory note ES
explains that the experiences used in the book, including the six story-sketches, are all based on actuality: she credits Dickens
with purveying a better understanding of children than modern psychologists...
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Charlotte Yonge
CY
published her novel as the author of The Heir of Redclyffe. Le Fanu's Uncle Silas is sometimes called the first murder mystery, and, as Battiscombe notes, Yonge wrote her contribution to this genre...
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Q. D. Leavis
Here QDL
highlights Oliphant's anti-sentimental, critical view of Victorian county town insitutions and relations, and the comparatively independent, ironic attitude of the unstereotypical heroine, Lucilla Marjoribanks (large, strong, unsentimental, insubordinate to men and with...
Selina was to have a free hand about printing this letter in as many papers as she liked, but preferably including the Daily News (the paper of Charles Dickens
and Harriet Martineau
) or the Herald.
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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.
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Sutherland, John. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press.
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Dickens held that charity should begin at home, and his...
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Lettice Cooper
LC
issued further biographies of eminent Victorians designed for young people: The Young Florence Nightingale, 1960, The Young Victoria, 1961, The Young Edgar Allan Poe, 1964, and A Hand Upon the Time...
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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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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.
(20 February 1962: 13
It does not appear that this movie was ever made.
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Susanna Moodie
SM
was influenced by spiritualism, though she was often unsure whether to be amazed or amused. For news of the movement, she and her husband read the Tribune and the Albion from New York. John Moodie
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Eliza Lynn Linton
ELL
's My Literary Life appeared posthumously, edited by Beatrice Harraden
: titled thus on the title-page and spine, it is in the half-title and elsewhere called Reminiscences of Dickens
, Thackeray
, George Eliot
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Anne Thackeray Ritchie
She ranges through much of literary history, paying attention to figures such as Anna Seward
and Mrs John Taylor
(mother of Sarah Austin
) as well as men like Charles Dickens
. Among her non-literary...
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Marie Corelli
She was the first literary figure to speak to this society in Edinburgh since Charles Dickens
. The lecture was published by the Society
the following year, and later appeared as an essay in a...
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Geraldine Jewsbury
In 1850 Charles Dickens
wrote to ask GJ
to contribute any papers or short stories
Lohrli, Anne, and Charles Dickens. Household Words: A Weekly Journal 1850-1859. University of Toronto Press.
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to his journal. That April Dickens
printed her true story Young Jew of Tunis, the first of many...
