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.
Here QDL
highlights Oliphant's anti-sentimental, critical view of Victorian county town insitutions and relations, and the comparatively independent, ironic attitude of the unstereotypical heroine, Lucilla Marjoribanks (large, strong, unsentimental, insubordinate to men and with...
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Beryl Bainbridge
She later said the non-realism of this tale had dissatisfied her. She acknowledged the influence on it of Dickens
and Robert Louis Stevenson
, and then judged that the best bits . . . have...
In a prefatory note ES
explains that the experiences used in the book, including the six story-sketches, are all based on actuality: she credits Dickens
with purveying a better understanding of children than modern psychologists...
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Lucas Malet
In late 1887, bearing the date of 1888, appeared LM
's illustrated book Little Peter. A Christmas Morality. She supplied an introduction to Dickens
's Dombey and Son for the Waverley edition of his...
In a book entitled Tom Tiddler's Ground, FM
gave an account of her American tour of a couple of years before.
The title Tom Tiddler's Ground had been used by Dickens
for a tale...
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Monica Dickens
Monica Dickens
wrote a Foreword to The London of Charles Dickens, published by the London Transport
Executive for the Dickens centenary.
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.
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Wilkie Collins
WC
's sensation novel The Woman in White began its serialization in Dickens'sAll the Year Round, following on the same page the conclusion of Dickens's own A Tale of Two Cities in instalments.
Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
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Geraldine Jewsbury
In 1850 Charles Dickens
wrote to ask GJ
to contribute any papers or short stories
qtd. in
Lohrli, Anne, and Charles Dickens. Household Words: A Weekly Journal 1850-1859. University of Toronto Press, 1973.
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to his journal. That April Dickens
printed her true story Young Jew of Tunis, the first of many...
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Matilda Betham-Edwards
She herself says the poem appeared in Household Words, but apparently she misremembered, since the oldDictionary of National Biography explicitly contradicted her. Dickens paid her five pounds for it. Five pounds for the...
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Charlotte Yonge
CY
published her novel as the author of The Heir of Redclyffe. Le Fanu's Uncle Silas is sometimes called the first murder mystery, and, as Battiscombe notes, Yonge wrote her contribution to this genre...
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Eliza Lynn Linton
ELL
's My Literary Life appeared posthumously, edited by Beatrice Harraden
: titled thus on the title-page and spine, it is in the half-title and elsewhere called Reminiscences of Dickens
, Thackeray
, George Eliot
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Susanna Moodie
SM
was influenced by spiritualism, though she was often unsure whether to be amazed or amused. For news of the movement, she and her husband read the Tribune and the Albion from New York. John Moodie
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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.
