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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.
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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... |
Reception | Margaret Oliphant | John Blackwood
complained of a certain hardness of tone qtd. in Jay, Elisabeth. Mrs Oliphant: "A Fiction to Herself": A Literary Life. Clarendon Press, 1995. 225 |
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... |
Reception | Lucy Walford | |
Reception | Mary Fortune | Lucy Sussex names Fanny Fern
, George Augustus Sala
, and Charles Dickens
, as well as MF
's Australian contemporary Marcus Clarke
, as influences on her non-fiction writing. Sussex calls her tone vital... |
Reception | Ellen Wood | At the time of her death, EW
remained a highly popular writer: her works were translated into many languages, and by 1895 their sale in Australia was said to have exceeded that of Dickens
... |
Reception | Frances Eleanor Trollope | Charles Dickens
had at one time noted FET
's literary talent, Stebbins, Lucy Poate, and Richard Poate Stebbins. The Trollopes. The Chronicle of a Writing Family. Columbia University Press, 1945. 235 Ackroyd, Peter. Dickens. HarperCollins, 1990. 1000 |
Reception | Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna | |
Reception | Dinah Mulock Craik | DMC
's work reached immense numbers of people. It was a staple of Mudie
's and other circulating libraries
. Her work was swiftly published in the US, and she had numerous titles (novels and... |
Reception | Sarah Grand | Reviewers in the Independent and The Bookman disliked this novel. The Bookman called it vulgar, and worse than vulgar. qtd. in Grand, Sarah. Sex, Social Purity and Sarah Grand: Volume 1. Editor Heilmann, Ann, Routledge, 2000. 518 |
Reception | E. Nesbit | EN
's books for children brought her extensive fan-mail from readers. She was conscientious about answering them, often in long letters discussing some moral problem such as the attempt to control one's temper. Some of... |
Reception | Frances Trollope | FT
's was not the first anti-child labour novel, and apart from being attacked as a red-hot revolutionary by Sydney Morgan she was also accused of imitating Oliver Twist. Heineman, Helen. Mrs. Trollope: The Triumphant Feminine in the Nineteenth Century. Ohio University Press, 1979. 172 |
Reception | Florence Nightingale | Although her letters were still unpublished at the time, Charles Dickens
quoted an extract from one of them in Household Words in May 1854, attributing it to an English Protestant lady. qtd. in Brothers, Barbara, and Julia Gergits, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 166. Gale Research, 1996. 166: 272 |
Reception | Catherine Marsh | Among the many sources of praise for this book, most notable is The Lady's Newspaper, which acknowledged: We often hear discussions as to the true mission of woman, and there are not wanting complaints... |
Reception | Charlotte Yonge | This was one of the most popular novels of the nineteenth century. Two years after it appeared it was the favourite choice of young officers in hospital during the Crimean War. A guardsman confessed that... |
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