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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.
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| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary Augusta Ward | The contemporary story features a self-educated working-class intellectual and freethinker whose characterisation draws on many strands of thought of the day. Drawn after the model of self-made men such as Daniel Macmillan
, William Lovett |
| Textual Production | Anne Mozley | Bishop John Wordsworth
wrote in his posthumous memoir of AM
that no one out of her own family circle knew or even suspected that she practised authorship and editing work as an occupation. When she... |
| Textual Production | Jane Welsh Carlyle | Many, including Charles Dickens
, have speculated that JWC
could have produced wonderful novels, and because she did not she is often viewed as something of a missing woman writer Christianson, Aileen. “Rewriting Herself: Jane Welsh Carlyle’s Letters”. Scotlands: The International, Interdisciplinary Journal of Scottish Culture, Vol. 2 , No. 1, Edinburgh University Press, pp. 47-52. 47 |
| Textual Production | Susan Hill | |
| Textual Production | Harriet Beecher Stowe | Though HBS
was internationally recognized for her written works she was not, unlike many other contemporary literary figures, a frequent lecturer. While Dickens
, Samuel Clemens
(who published as Mark Twain), Julia Ward Howe
... |
| Textual Production | Margaret Kennedy | In the years between the 1926 staging of The Constant Nymph and the appearance of Escape Me Never!, MK
co-wrote with Basil Dean
the play Come With Me (1934), and adapted Charles Dickens
's... |
| Textual Production | Jean Plaidy | JP
had begun writing some years before this first publication. Bennett, Catherine. “The Prime of Miss Jean Plaidy”. The Guardian, 4 July 1991, pp. 23-4. 23 |
| Textual Production | Frances Isabella Duberly | 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. |
| 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. 2nd ed., Melbourne University Press, 1957. 165 Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989. 71 |
| Textual Production | 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... |
| Textual Production | Q. D. Leavis | To mark the centenary of Charles Dickens
's death, QDL
and F. R. Leavis
published Dickens: The Novelist, their reassessment of his cultural significance, dedicated by each to the other. MacKillop, Ian. F.R. Leavis: A Life in Criticism. Allen Lane, 1995. 369, 372 |
| Textual Production | 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... |
| 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, 1926. 3 |
| Textual Production | Queen Victoria | Initially, Victoria was unreceptive to the idea of widespread publication of her journal extracts, arguing (according to Helps in his Editor's Preface) that she had no skill whatever in authorship; that these were, for the... |
| Textual Production | Agatha Christie |
Timeline
2 July 1859: William Bradbury and Frederick Mullet Evans...
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2 July 1859
William Bradbury
and Frederick Mullet Evans
began publishing a sixpenny periodical entitled Once a Week.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.
79, 479-80
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7 October 1865: Governor Edward Eyre ruthlessly suppressed...
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7 October 1865
Governor Edward Eyre
ruthlessly suppressed a rebellion which began at Morant Bay in Jamaica.
Rose, Phyllis. Parallel Lives: Five Victorian Marriages. Alfred A. Knopf, 1984.
264-5
August 1868: A week after the death of US Jewish writer...
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August 1868
A week after the death of US Jewish writer Adah Isaacs Menken
(famous in London as a near-naked daredevil rider on stage in Mazeppa; or, the Wild Horse of Tartary), her poetry volume Infelicia...
By 17 April 1869: Rosa Mulholland's Hester's History, her first...
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By 17 April 1869
Rosa Mulholland
's Hester's History, her first novel published under her own name, was both influenced and in due course appreciated by Charles Dickens
.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
2164 (1869): 533
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, 1990.
1872: The Dolly Varden hat, named for the coquette...
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1872
The Dolly Varden hat, named for the coquette of Dickens
's Barnaby Rudge, made its first appearance.
Adburgham, Alison. A Punch History of Manners and Modes 1841-1940. Hutchinson, 1961.
97
1872-1874: John Forster, who is recognized as the first...
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1872-1874
John Forster
, who is recognized as the first professional biographer of the nineteenth century, published his biography of Dickens, in three volumes.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
2351 (1872): 625
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
April 1879: James Murray—editor since 1 March of what...
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April 1879
James Murray
—editor since 1 March of what was to become the Oxford English Dictionary—issued an Appeal for readers to supply illustrative quotations.
Winchester, Simon. The Meaning of Everything. Oxford University Press, 2003.
93, 107, 109
30 April 1881: Charles Dickens's son, who shared his name,...
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30 April 1881
Charles Dickens
's son
, who shared his name, revived the periodical Household Words.
Lohrli, Anne, and Charles Dickens. Household Words: A Weekly Journal 1850-1859. University of Toronto Press, 1973.
50
1891: Mary Dickens (grand-daughter of Charles Dickens)...
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1891
Mary Dickens
(grand-daughter of Charles Dickens
) published her first novel, Cross Currents, a story of the conflict between love and career in a talented actress.
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.
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, 1990.
July1905: Household Words, founded by Charles Dickens,...
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July1905
Household Words, founded by Charles Dickens
, ceased publication with volume 49 of its continuation dating from 13 April 1881. In its current form it was once more a monthly (after a period as a weekly).
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5 January 1907: Baroness Angela Burdett-Coutts (who died...
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5 January 1907
Baroness Angela Burdett-Coutts
(who died of bronchitis on 30 December 1906) became the last person laid to rest at Westminster Abbey.
“Women’s History Timeline”. BBC: Radio 4: Woman’s Hour.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
1920: The number of Miners' Institutes (which included...
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1920
The number of Miners' Institutes
(which included Miners' Libraries
) increased following the decision regularly to supplement the levy financing them from the national Miners' Welfare Fund
.
Collini, Stefan. “The Cookson Story”. London Review of Books, 13 Dec. 2001, pp. 33-5.
34
February 1959: Fings Ain't Wot They Used t'be, a musical...
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February 1959
Fings Ain't Wot They Used t'be, a musical about gangsters, molls, and tarts, was created by formerly criminal writer Frank Norman
, composer Lionel Bart
, and the company at Joan Littlewood
's Theatre Royal, Stratford East
.
“Fings Ain’t Wot They Used To Be”. The Guide to Musical Theatre.
1996: US punk writer Kathy Acker published Pussy,...
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1996
US punk writer Kathy Acker
published Pussy, King of the Pirates, a feminist-pornographic reworking of Robert Louis Stevenson
's Treasure Island in which the treasure-seekers are a band of women pirates.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
14 July 2006: The Bow Street Magistrates Court, one of...
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14 July 2006
The Bow Street Magistrates Court
, one of London's most famous courts, closed after dispensing justice for 267 years.
“Bow Street Court Closes Its Doors”. BBC News.
“Infamous Names in Bow Street’s Past”. The Mail on Sunday.
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