Lightbown, Ronald W., and Eliza Meteyard. “Introduction”. The Life of Josiah Wedgwood, Cornmarket Press, 1970.
Douglas William Jerrold
Standard Name: Jerrold, Douglas William
Used Form: Douglas Jerrold
Connections
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
---|---|---|
Friends, Associates | Geraldine Jewsbury | GJ
's later social circle included many writers: Sydney, Lady Morgan
, who became a close friend and for whom GJ
acted as amanuensis; author Lady Llanover
; author and publisher Douglas Jerrold
; and... |
Friends, Associates | Jane Loudon | As well as horticultural and artistic friends and associates, JL
and her husband had literary friends, who included Robert Chambers
and his wife Anne
, Elizabeth Gaskell
, Mary Howitt
, Julia Kavanagh
, Charles Dickens |
Friends, Associates | Eliza Meteyard | She became connected through her writing to Douglas Jerrold
, Mary
and William Howitt
, and Harriet Martineau
. |
Friends, Associates | William Harrison Ainsworth | At his home in Kensal Green he hosted many Victorian literary lions including Charles Dickens
, William Makepeace Thackeray
, Douglas Jerrold
, William Wordsworth
, and illustrator and collaborator George Cruikshank
. Corey, Melinda, and George Ochoa, editors. The Encyclopedia of the Victorian World. Henry Holt and Company, 1996. Sutherland, John. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989. The Concise Dictionary of National Biography: From Earliest Times to 1985. Oxford University Press, 1992. |
Friends, Associates | Charles Cowden Clarke | CCC
was an important early friend of John Keats
. He also formed friendships with Leigh Hunt
, Douglas Jerrold
, Charles
and Mary Lamb
, and Charles Dickens
. Most of these friendships were... |
Friends, Associates | Mary Cowden Clarke | In addition to meeting Dickens
as a result of her theatrical activities, MCC
and her husband met William Hazlitt
through a shared duty of theatre reviewing, and she became friends with Mary Howitt
, and... |
Literary responses | Harriet Martineau | This book resulted in public outcry. Douglas Jerrold
responded with wit: There is no God, and Harriet Martineau is his Prophet. Webb, Robert Kiefer. Harriet Martineau: A Radical Victorian. Columbia University Press, 1960. 299 |
Literary responses | Sarah Stickney Ellis | Lady Charlotte Guest
, who was first married ten years before this book appeared, received a copy of it as a gift from her husband
and read it at his behest. Obey, Erica. The Wunderkammer of Lady Charlotte Guest. Lehigh University Press, 2007. 38-9 |
Occupation | Sarah Stickney Ellis | SSE
spent twenty years lecturing at Rawdon House
. She often spoke, too, to women's groups. The curriculum at the school was unusual in stressing practical household skills as well as cultural accomplishments; for this... |
politics | Matilda Hays | Other key figures involved included Charles Dickens
, Giuseppe Mazzini
, Mary
and William Howitt
, and Douglas Jerrold
. Gleadle, Kathryn. The Early Feminists. Macmillan, 1995. 141 |
Publishing | Eliza Meteyard | EM
gained her pen name of Silverpen when Douglas Jerrold
appended it to a leading article she contributed to his Weekly Newspaper. Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908. |
Textual Production | Caroline Chisholm | Douglas William Jerrold
, a prominent London journalist, subsequently became a friend of CC
's; he appears in her novel Little Joe as a generous hero. Moran, John, and Caroline Chisholm. “Introduction and Commentary”. Radical, in Bonnet and Shawl: Four Political Lectures, Preferential Publications, 1994, pp. 1 - 12, 30. 6 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Anne Marsh | She supplied this novel with a preface setting out many of her ideas about fiction. She thinks it should uphold the cause of morality, not by inculcating particular maxims but to bring actions and their... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary Cowden Clarke |
Timeline
8 June 1829
30 November 1829
1830-49
Douglas Jerrold
consolidated his career as a journalist and short-story writer while continuing to write for the theatre.
10 June 1833
The Dramatic Copyright Act was passed.
25 April 1836
The New Strand Theatre
(opened without a licence in London in 1832) re-opened as fully legitimate, managed by W. J. Hammond
and Douglas Jerrold
.
17 July 1841
The first number of the comic weeklyPunch (founded by Douglas Jerrold
and others) appeared in print.
January 1845
Douglas Jerrold
's Shilling Magazine began publication at the Punch office; this short-lived radical journal addressed the masses of England.
17 February 1847
The Whittington Club
(named after the poor boy who became Lord Mayor of London) held its first meeting. Unlike traditional gentlemen's clubs, it welcomed women and lower-middle-class men.
1852
Douglas Jerrold
took on the editorship of Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper.