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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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 | |
Residence | Gillian Slovo | Her grandmother and elder sister travelled separately; her father, already in England, had been waiting on tenterhooks for their arrival. GS
saw England through the old-world lens of Charles Dickens
and Jane Austen; Slovo, Gillian. Every Secret Thing: My Family, My Country. Little, Brown, 1997. 103 |
Residence | E. M. Delafield | Charles Dickens
used to live in a house across the street. McCullen, Maurice. E. M. Delafield. Twayne, 1985. 10 |
Residence | Mary Angela Dickens | When MAD
was nearly eight years old, her father purchased Gad's Hill Place in Kent, the last home of his own father Charles Dickens
(who had died two months before this), for £8,647 at... |
Residence | Alice Meynell | Describing the situation at the Thompsons' Italian villa, Dickens
writes: Coming upon them unawares, I found T[hompson] with a pointed beard, smoking a great German pipe, in a pair of slippers; the two little girls... |
Residence | Rumer Godden | Though she still found it hard to write in the country, RG
called this the happiest house we have had. Godden, Rumer. A House with Four Rooms. Macmillan, 1989. 170 |
Textual Features | Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna | Stowe
's introduction praises CET
's works as a safe and desirable acquisition in every christian [sic] and family library in our country. Stowe, Harriet Beecher, and Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna. “Introduction”. The Works of Charlotte Elizabeth, Dodd, 1845, p. v - vii. vii |
Textual Features | Charlotte Riddell | This evidently very saleable story followed the recipe laid down by Dickens
in A Christmas Carol in 1843, for a haunting which works a positive moral transformation. Hertford O'Donnell fell out with his parents as... |
Textual Features | Charlotte Maria Tucker | This, one of her most lively and engaging children's books, features a main character named Ratto, who wanders through the world from London to Russia, eventually joining up with a rat-hero named Whiskerandos. This... |
Textual Features | Dinah Mulock Craik | This original fairy tale features the Prince Dolor, who is crippled as an infant, deprived of his rule by a Prince Regent uncle, and brought up in miserable conditions. A fairy godmother gives him a... |
Textual Features | Sarah Harriet Burney | These letters show her to be a rewarding, informal, up-to-the-minute literary critic. She kept remarkably up to date on the topic of women's writing, showing herself consistently receptive to new styles and new ideas. She... |
Textual Features | Mary Angela Dickens | |
Textual Features | Dorothy L. Sayers | Here she mounts a powerful appreciation of the novel, both for its importance in the development of the detective story (all the clues, she says, are clearly conveyed to the reader, something which seldom happened... |
Textual Features | Elizabeth Jenkins | This little book (with no notes or index) opens on an echo of Jenkins's fuller work on Austen, with a tribute to the mid eighteenth century as a time of brilliant flowering in the English... |
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