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.
Head-and-shoulders daguerrotype of Charles Dickens by Jeremiah Gurney of New York City, 1867-8. Dickens has a goatee beard, moustache, and hair combed forward on each side of his bald patch.

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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...
Publishing George Eliot
GE was already at work on her next novel when Adam Bede was published. For the first time, this novel set her at the centre of a kind of bidding war in the book trade....
Publishing Elizabeth Gaskell
The relationship was not always a happy one. Before EG had any direct contact with Dickens she was miffed by his failure to acknowledge the copy of Mary Barton she had her publishers send him...
Publishing Georgiana Craik
GC contributed three stories to Dickens 's Household Words in 1852 and 1853, and Anne Lohrli 's index to the journal indicates that she also submitted work to All the Year Round.
Lohrli, Anne, and Charles Dickens. Household Words: A Weekly Journal 1850-1859. University of Toronto Press, 1973.
243
Lohrli...
Publishing Adelaide Procter
The year after AP 's death, a posthumous edition of her Legends and Lyrics brought together both previous volumes in the form of an illustrated Christmas gift book, dated 1866, with a preface by Dickens
Publishing Mary Cowden Clarke
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, 1896.
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 Elizabeth Gaskell
The story's ending led to conflict with Dickens , who apparently wanted to offer readers a more rationalist interpretation of the events narrated. When Gaskell demurred he pulled out all the stops: I have no...
Publishing Matilda Betham-Edwards
MBE very nearly became forever a poet instead of a prose writer, when Dickens accepted a poem of hers entitled The Golden Bee (describing a real-life shipwreck), and printed it in All the Year Round.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2025, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Betham-Edwards, Matilda. Reminiscences. G. Redway, 1898, p. vi, 354 pp.
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Publishing Elizabeth Gaskell
She was paid £300 for the serial form of the book, £50 more than initially promised. This, her first serialised novel, produced fierce arguments with Dickens over everything from the overall length to the conclusions...
Publishing Adelaide Procter
In 1843 AP contributed her first published poem, Ministering Angels, to Heath's Book of Beauty. She also published a few pieces in the Cornhill Magazine and Good Words, and a number in...
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...
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 Elizabeth Gaskell
In keeping with the policies of Household Words and All the Year Round, EG 's short fiction continued to appear there anonymously. She earned significant income from it, for Dickens paid her at least...
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...

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