Charles Dickens

07 February 1812 - 09 June 1870

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	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	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	Harriet Martineau	HM seems to have considered the wide circulation of Dickens 's Household Words too good an opportunity for influence to be passed up. Among the stories she contributed were Woodruffe the Gardener, The People...
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	Harriet Martineau	HM 's connection with Dickens 's Household Words deteriorated from late 1849. First he placed her analysis of the position of women after his own assertion that women's function was to dress well and look...
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. 205
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	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	Though he did not accept all of her contributions, Dickens was very encouraging of Stretton's writing. In 1859, the year of her first writing for him, he asked her to contribute to the first Christmas...
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	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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