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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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| Education | Winifred Peck | It was probably Mary A. Marzials
' anthology Gems of English Poetry which made poetry the only lesson the Knoxes disliked. Winifred felt that Hemans
's boy on the burning deck cut a poor figure... |
| Education | Elma Napier | In spite of the fact that her family did not value literature as much as games, and that her mother had specific ideas about what girls should read, EN
devoured every book she could get... |
| Education | Agatha Christie | By the time Agatha was born, Clara Miller
believed that girls ought not to learn to read before the age of eight. Defiantly, Agatha taught herself to read at five. She eagerly devoured Lewis Carroll |
| Education | Maya Angelou | Marguerite Johnson had already become a voracious reader, both of Black writers and of canonical dead white males. Shakespeare
, she wrote later, was my first white love. Angelou, Maya. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. Heinemann New Windmill Series, 1995. 12 |
| Education | Pearl S. Buck | Mr Kung despised fiction and the Sydenstricker library contained only the supposedly factual Plutarch
's Lives and Foxe
's Book of Martyrs, but Pearl read fiction avidly in both Chinese and English, devouring Shakespeare |
| Education | Marie Corelli | Looking back on her early education, MC
wrote I managed to develop into a curiously determined independent little personality, with ideas and opinions more suited to some clever young man. . . . I instinctively... |
| Education | John Strange Winter | After this she completed her education at home. Although even in this context she says, I was not well educated, for I never would learn, Bainton, George, editor. The Art of Authorship. J. Clarke, 1890. 24 |
| Education | Alison Uttley | Alice Jane Taylor (later AU
) was a strong-willed child who set her own agenda. She later remembered a trial of wills, at the age of two, with her godmother, which ended not in her... |
| Education | Viola Meynell | After leaving school at sixteen, VM
read widely on her own, especially English authors: George Eliot
, Dickens
, George Meredith
, Arnold Bennett
, John Galsworthy
, and Thomas Hardy
. MacKenzie, Raymond N. A Critical Biography of English Novelist Viola Meynell, 1885-1956. Edwin Mellen, 2002. 61, 65 |
| Education | Daisy Ashford | |
| Education | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | Mary Elizabeth read early and voraciously, polishing off Anna Maria Hall
's three-volume Marian when she was only seven. By nine she was reading Scott
and Dickens
. One of the family servants introduced her... |
| Education | Sarah Grand | |
| Education | Doris Lessing | |
| Education | Isabella Banks | Her education was supplemented both by a good home library and by her parents' wide cultural circle. She led a lively social life in Manchester, attending Anti-Corn Law League bazaars, and soirées at the Manchester Athenæum |
| Education | Emma Marshall | At a very early age Emma Martin could recite See'st thou my home is where yon woods are waving by Felicia Hemans
. qtd. in Marshall, Beatrice. Emma Marshall. Seeley, 1900. 8 |
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
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.
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.
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).
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.
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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