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.
MH
received from Charles Dickens
a letter asking her to consider writing for his new journal, Household Words; she contributed a number of articles to it.
Dunicliff, Joy. Mary Howitt: Another Lost Victorian Writer. Excalibur Press of London, 1992.
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Mary Boyle
Dickens
published in Household Words a story by MB
which he entitled My Mahogany Friend.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton first Baron Lytton
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
, as the author of Rienzi, published his two-volume occult novel A Strange Story. It was first commissioned by his friend Charles Dickens
for the magazine All the Year Round.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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The Athenaeum Index of Reviews and Reviewers: 1830-1870. http://replay.web.archive.org/20070714065452/http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~asp/v2/home.html.
1790 (15 February 1862): 219-21
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Elizabeth Gaskell
EG
's shorter fiction was a mainstay of periodicals edited by Charles Dickens
: first Household Words and then its successor, All the Year Round. His magazines also provided outlets for her longer works...
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George Eliot
GE
was already at work on her next novel when Adam Bede was published. For the first time, this novel set her at the centre of a kind of bidding war in the book trade....
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Elizabeth Gaskell
The relationship was not always a happy one. Before EG
had any direct contact with Dickens
she was miffed by his failure to acknowledge the copy of Mary Barton she had her publishers send him...
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Mary Cowden Clarke
Among her verse for periodicals, MCC
contributed to Dickens
's All the Year Round (which was launched in 1859) a poem called Time's Healing, six sonnets, and two verse tales, The Yule Log and Minnie's Musings.
Clarke, Mary Cowden. My Long Life. Dodd, Mead, 1896.
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Georgiana Craik
GC
contributed three stories to Dickens
's Household Words in 1852 and 1853, and Anne Lohrli
's index to the journal indicates that she also submitted work to All the Year Round.
Lohrli, Anne, and Charles Dickens. Household Words: A Weekly Journal 1850-1859. University of Toronto Press, 1973.
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Lohrli...
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Adelaide Procter
The year after AP
's death, a posthumous edition of her Legends and Lyrics brought together both previous volumes in the form of an illustrated Christmas gift book, dated 1866, with a preface by Dickens
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Caroline Clive
The name of the protagonist or hero is one CC
had herself used as a pseudonym. Her title-page has an epigraph from Sidney Smith
's letters: How little we know of what passes in each...
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Elizabeth Gaskell
The story's ending led to conflict with Dickens
, who apparently wanted to offer readers a more rationalist interpretation of the events narrated. When Gaskell demurred he pulled out all the stops: I have no...
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Matilda Betham-Edwards
MBE
very nearly became forever a poet instead of a prose writer, when Dickens
accepted a poem of hers entitled The Golden Bee (describing a real-life shipwreck), and printed it in All the Year Round.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Betham-Edwards, Matilda. Reminiscences. G. Redway, 1898, p. vi, 354 pp.
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Monica Dickens
She had one further piece of good fortune in meeting with Compton Mackenzie
(whose grandfather had been friends with Charles Dickens), who read her book in proof, tidied up a few loose utterances, and did...
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Hesba Stretton
HS
's first publication (under her birth name of Sarah Smith) was the short story The Lucky Leg in Charles Dickens
's Household Words.
It has been generally said that HS
's sister Elizabeth
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Elizabeth Gaskell
She was paid £300 for the serial form of the book, £50 more than initially promised. This, her first serialised novel, produced fierce arguments with Dickens
over everything from the overall length to the conclusions...
