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.
Perhaps anticipating its success, the novel was simultaneously serialised in both England (in Dickens'sAll the Year Round) and the US (in Harper's Weekly).
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.
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Elizabeth Gaskell
She again came into conflict with Dickens
, who against her wishes inserted the word dark in the title, stressing the melodrama rather than the mundane in the story of murder and paternal possessiveness in...
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Marguerite Gardiner Countess of Blessington
Marguerite Blessington
agreed to write a society gossip column for Dickens
's Daily News (launched on 21 January).
Molloy, Joseph Fitzgerald. The Most Gorgeous Lady Blessington. 4th ed., Downey, 1896.
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Caroline Chisholm
Household Words included in its opening issue A Bundle of Emigrant's Letters, the first in a series of articles CC
and Charles Dickens
jointly authored to promote the Family Colonisation Loan Society
.
Kiddle, Margaret, and Sir Douglas Copland. Caroline Chisholm. 2nd ed., Melbourne University Press, 1957.
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Eliza Cook
EC
contributed to other publications than her own, including Charles Dickens
's Daily News.
Gleadle, Kathryn. The Early Feminists. Macmillan, 1995.
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Eliza Lynn Linton
Also in 1854, Dickens
published her Rights and Wrongs of Women in Household Words, which Deborah T. Meem
characterises as antifeminist, while she says a later article, Marriage Gaolers (also published in Household Words...
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Mary Angela Dickens
MAD
published her autobiographical essay A Child's Memories of Gad's Hill (with memories of her grandfather Charles Dickens
) in The Strand Magazine.
Dickens, Mary Angela. “A Child’s Memories of Gad’s Hill”. The Strand Magazine, Vol.
xiii
, No. 73, Jan. 1897, pp. 69-74.
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Mary Boyle
Dickens
published in Household Words a story by MB
which he entitled My Mahogany Friend.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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Mary Howitt
MH
received from Charles Dickens
a letter asking her to consider writing for his new journal, Household Words; she contributed a number of articles to it.
Dunicliff, Joy. Mary Howitt: Another Lost Victorian Writer. Excalibur Press of London, 1992.
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Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton first Baron Lytton
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
, as the author of Rienzi, published his two-volume occult novel A Strange Story. It was first commissioned by his friend Charles Dickens
for the magazine All the Year Round.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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The Athenaeum Index of Reviews and Reviewers: 1830-1870. http://replay.web.archive.org/20070714065452/http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~asp/v2/home.html.
1790 (15 February 1862): 219-21
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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...
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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...
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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....
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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.
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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.
