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.
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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Lettice Cooper
LC
issued further biographies of eminent Victorians designed for young people: The Young Florence Nightingale, 1960, The Young Victoria, 1961, The Young Edgar Allan Poe, 1964, and A Hand Upon the Time...
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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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Q. D. Leavis
To mark the centenary of Charles Dickens
's death, QDL
and F. R. Leavis
published Dickens: The Novelist, their reassessment of his cultural significance, dedicated by each to the other.
MacKillop, Ian. F.R. Leavis: A Life in Criticism. Allen Lane, 1995.
369, 372
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Anne Thackeray Ritchie
She ranges through much of literary history, paying attention to figures such as Anna Seward
and Mrs John Taylor
(mother of Sarah Austin
) as well as men like Charles Dickens
. Among her non-literary...
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Mary Angela Dickens
MAD
published Dickens' Dream Children, a volume of stories adapted for young readers about young characters in Charles Dickens
's fiction.
Initially, Victoria was unreceptive to the idea of widespread publication of her journal extracts, arguing (according to Helps in his Editor's Preface) that she had no skill whatever in authorship; that these were, for the...
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Agatha Christie
MGM
commissioned AC
, following its successful film of her Murder She Said, to write a filmscript for Dickens
's Bleak House.
“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.
(20 February 1962: 13
It does not appear that this movie was ever made.
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Q. D. Leavis
The great parts written by QDL
have not been identified, let alone the weight of her input overall, and scholars are divided over her claims to substantial co-authorship. In the same year, 1995, Ian MacKillop
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Marie Corelli
She was the first literary figure to speak to this society in Edinburgh since Charles Dickens
. The lecture was published by the Society
the following year, and later appeared as an essay in a...
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Q. D. Leavis
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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Anne Mozley
Bishop John Wordsworth
wrote in his posthumous memoir of AM
that no one out of her own family circle knew or even suspected that she practised authorship and editing work as an occupation. When she...
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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...