MacKenzie, Raymond N. A Critical Biography of English Novelist Viola Meynell, 1885-1956. Edwin Mellen.
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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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| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Education | Margaret Forster | MF
loved Carlisle Girls' High School in a way that made my love of all school from the beginning seem a feeble thing—although she quickly realised her deficiencies, like not having heard of Dickens |
| Education | Elma Napier | In spite of the fact that her family did not value literature as much as games, and that her mother had specific ideas about what girls should read, EN
devoured every book she could get... |
| Education | Viola Meynell | After leaving school at sixteen, VM
read widely on her own, especially English authors: George Eliot
, Dickens
, George Meredith
, Arnold Bennett
, John Galsworthy
, and Thomas Hardy
. |
| Education | Alison Uttley | Alice Jane Taylor (later AU
) was a strong-willed child who set her own agenda. She later remembered a trial of wills, at the age of two, with her godmother, which ended not in her... |
| Education | Anita Brookner | AB
's father urged her to read Dickens
, for the purpose of understanding what the English were like, and also of understanding the unfairness of things. Skinner, John. The Fictions of Anita Brookner: Illusions of Romance. Macmillan. 5 |
| Education | Frances Isabella Duberly | After her mother died she was sent to a boarding school at High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire (which she later remembered, perhaps snobbishly, for the lack of good company). By one means or the other she... |
| Education | John Strange Winter | After this she completed her education at home. Although even in this context she says, I was not well educated, for I never would learn, Bainton, George, editor. The Art of Authorship. J. Clarke. 24 |
| Education | Louisa May Alcott | LMA
frequently attended lectures in Boston, and was present for the speeches of both William Makepeace Thackeray
and Charles Dickens
. Though she adored Dickens's writings, she judged him in person to be an... |
| Education | Emma Marshall | At a very early age Emma Martin could recite See'st thou my home is where yon woods are waving by Felicia Hemans
. Marshall, Beatrice. Emma Marshall. Seeley. 8 |
| Education | Sarah Grand | |
| Education | Doris Lessing | |
| Education | Agatha Christie | By the time Agatha was born, Clara Miller
believed that girls ought not to learn to read before the age of eight. Defiantly, Agatha taught herself to read at five. She eagerly devoured Lewis Carroll |
| Education | Maya Angelou | Marguerite Johnson had already become a voracious reader, both of Black writers and of canonical dead white males. Shakespeare
, she wrote later, was my first white love. Angelou, Maya. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. Heinemann New Windmill Series. 12 |
| Education | L. M. Montgomery | LMM
attended a one-room schoolhouse across the road from her grandparents' farmhouse, completing her time there in 1892. The following year, she went to the Prince of Wales College
in Charlottetown for teacher training. Her... |
| Education | Frances Eleanor Trollope | Their mother educated the sisters. Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. |
Timeline
2 July 1859: William Bradbury and Frederick Mullet Evans...
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2 July 1859
William Bradbury
and Frederick Mullet Evans
began publishing a sixpenny periodical entitled Once a Week.
7 October 1865: Governor Edward Eyre ruthlessly suppressed...
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7 October 1865
Governor Edward Eyre
ruthlessly suppressed a rebellion which began at Morant Bay in Jamaica.
August 1868: A week after the death of US Jewish writer...
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August 1868
A week after the death of US Jewish writer Adah Isaacs Menken
(famous in London as a near-naked daredevil rider on stage in Mazeppa; or, the Wild Horse of Tartary), her poetry volume Infelicia...
By 17 April 1869: Rosa Mulholland's Hester's History, her first...
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By 17 April 1869
Rosa Mulholland
's Hester's History, her first novel published under her own name, was both influenced and in due course appreciated by Charles Dickens
.
1872: The Dolly Varden hat, named for the coquette...
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1872
The Dolly Varden hat, named for the coquette of Dickens
's Barnaby Rudge, made its first appearance.
1872-1874: John Forster, who is recognized as the first...
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1872-1874
John Forster
, who is recognized as the first professional biographer of the nineteenth century, published his biography of Dickens, in three volumes.
April 1879: James Murray—editor since 1 March of what...
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April 1879
James Murray
—editor since 1 March of what was to become the Oxford English Dictionary—issued an Appeal for readers to supply illustrative quotations.
30 April 1881: Charles Dickens's son, who shared his name,...
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30 April 1881
1891: Mary Dickens (grand-daughter of Charles Dickens)...
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1891
Mary Dickens
(grand-daughter of Charles Dickens
) published her first novel, Cross Currents, a story of the conflict between love and career in a talented actress.
July1905: Household Words, founded by Charles Dickens,...
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July1905
Household Words, founded by Charles Dickens
, ceased publication with volume 49 of its continuation dating from 13 April 1881. In its current form it was once more a monthly (after a period as a weekly).
5 January 1907: Baroness Angela Burdett-Coutts (who died...
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5 January 1907
Baroness Angela Burdett-Coutts
(who died of bronchitis on 30 December 1906) became the last person laid to rest at Westminster Abbey.
1920: The number of Miners' Institutes (which included...
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1920
The number of Miners' Institutes
(which included Miners' Libraries
) increased following the decision regularly to supplement the levy financing them from the national Miners' Welfare Fund
.
February 1959: Fings Ain't Wot They Used t'be, a musical...
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February 1959
Fings Ain't Wot They Used t'be, a musical about gangsters, molls, and tarts, was created by formerly criminal writer Frank Norman
, composer Lionel Bart
, and the company at Joan Littlewood
's Theatre Royal, Stratford East
.
1996: US punk writer Kathy Acker published Pussy,...
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1996
US punk writer Kathy Acker
published Pussy, King of the Pirates, a feminist-pornographic reworking of Robert Louis Stevenson
's Treasure Island in which the treasure-seekers are a band of women pirates.
14 July 2006: The Bow Street Magistrates Court, one of...
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14 July 2006
The Bow Street Magistrates Court
, one of London's most famous courts, closed after dispensing justice for 267 years.
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