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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Textual Production Caroline Chisholm
From March 1852 to September 1853 a fictionalized version of CC appeared as Mrs Jellyby in Charles Dickens 's novel Bleak House.
Kiddle, Margaret, and Sir Douglas Copland. Caroline Chisholm. Melbourne University Press.
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Sutherland, John. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press.
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Dickens held that charity should begin at home, and his...
Textual Production Mary Angela Dickens
MAD published Dickens' Dream Children, a volume of stories adapted for young readers about young characters in Charles Dickens 's fiction.
Dickens, Mary Angela. Dickens’ Dream Children. Raphael Tuck & Sons.
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Textual Production 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...
Textual Production 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
Textual Production 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.
Textual Production 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...
Textual Production 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
Textual Production 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...
Textual Production Geraldine Jewsbury
In 1850 Charles Dickens wrote to ask GJ to contribute any papers or short stories
Lohrli, Anne, and Charles Dickens. Household Words: A Weekly Journal 1850-1859. University of Toronto Press.
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to his journal. That April Dickens printed her true story Young Jew of Tunis, the first of many...
Textual Production 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...
Textual Production Jean Plaidy
JP had begun writing some years before this first publication.
Bennett, Catherine. “The Prime of Miss Jean Plaidy”. The Guardian, pp. 23-4.
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During the 1930s she produced nine long novels, in which she tried to emulate her literary heroes (theBrontësEmily Brontë , George Eliot ,...
Textual Production Harriet Beecher Stowe
Though HBS was internationally recognized for her written works she was not, unlike many other contemporary literary figures, a frequent lecturer. While Dickens , Samuel Clemens (who published as Mark Twain), Julia Ward Howe ...
Textual Production 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...
Textual Production Susan Hill
SH was herself a contributor to People. In The Lighting of the Lamps, 1986, she collects her own critical essays (about reading, and about authors like Dickens , John Wain , and Jean Rhys
Textual Production 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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