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.
Though he did not accept all of her contributions, Dickens
was very encouraging of Stretton's writing. In 1859, the year of her first writing for him, he asked her to contribute to the first Christmas...
Publishing
Elizabeth Gaskell
In keeping with the policies of Household Words and All the Year Round, EG
's short fiction continued to appear there anonymously. She earned significant income from it, for Dickens
paid her at least...
Publishing
Eliza Lynn Linton
Also in 1854, Dickens
published her Rights and Wrongs of Women in Household Words, which Deborah T. Meem
characterises as antifeminist, while she says a later article, Marriage Gaolers (also published in Household Words...
Publishing
Adelaide Procter
In spring 1853, AP
submitted a poem under the pseudonym of Mary Berwick to her family friend Charles Dickens
, as editor of Household Words. It was accepted, and she became a regular contributor...
Publishing
Hesba Stretton
From HS
's detailed Log Books, the scholar Jacqueline S. Bratton
has managed to reconstruct much of her early years of journalism. Bratton says these typify relations between mid-century magazines and obscure writers.
Bratton, Jacqueline S. “Hesba Stretton’s Journalism”. Victorian Periodicals Review, Vol.
12
, 1979, pp. 60-70.
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Elizabeth Gaskell
Strained in her relationship with Dickens
, and despite not entirely easy relations with Thackeray
, EG
placed Curious if True in the first issue of Thackeray's new Cornhill Magazine in February 1860.
Some pressure...
Publishing
Harriet Downing
Dickens
published two of HD
's stories (Three Notches in the Devil's Tail and The Man with the Club Foot) in Bentley's Miscellany as by the Author of Reminiscences of a Monthly Nurse...
Publishing
Wilkie Collins
Perhaps anticipating its success, the novel was simultaneously serialised in both England (in Dickens'sAll the Year Round) and the US (in Harper's Weekly).
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.
Publishing
Elizabeth Gaskell
She again came into conflict with Dickens
, who against her wishes inserted the word dark in the title, stressing the melodrama rather than the mundane in the story of murder and paternal possessiveness in...
Publishing
Marguerite Gardiner Countess of Blessington
Marguerite Blessington
agreed to write a society gossip column for Dickens
's Daily News (launched on 21 January).
Molloy, Joseph Fitzgerald. The Most Gorgeous Lady Blessington. 4th ed., Downey, 1896.
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Publishing
Caroline Chisholm
Household Words included in its opening issue A Bundle of Emigrant's Letters, the first in a series of articles CC
and Charles Dickens
jointly authored to promote the Family Colonisation Loan Society
.
Kiddle, Margaret, and Sir Douglas Copland. Caroline Chisholm. 2nd ed., Melbourne University Press, 1957.
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Publishing
Eliza Cook
EC
contributed to other publications than her own, including Charles Dickens
's Daily News.
Gleadle, Kathryn. The Early Feminists. Macmillan, 1995.
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Mary Angela Dickens
MAD
published her autobiographical essay A Child's Memories of Gad's Hill (with memories of her grandfather Charles Dickens
) in The Strand Magazine.
Dickens, Mary Angela. “A Child’s Memories of Gad’s Hill”. The Strand Magazine, Vol.
xiii
, No. 73, Jan. 1897, pp. 69-74.
69
Publishing
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/.
Publishing
Mary Howitt
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.
