advertising in and of Dickens's work
Dickens lived in an era of brash and relentless advertising. Walls, fences, and hoardings in city and village were plastered with urgent bills and posters for all kinds of products ...
All the Year Round
A weekly magazine (1859–93) of serial fiction, essays, poetry, topical journalism, and information which Dickens published and edited from 30 April 1859 (seeserial literature; publishing). ...
author–publisher agreements
Contractual agreements between authors of books and publishers of those books have been and remain an essential instrument for an orderly market in commercial book publishing.1. Contract and ...
Barnaby Rudge
A novel by Dickens published in 1841 as part of Master Humphrey's Clock. The earlier of Dickens's two historical novels, it is set at the period of the Gordon anti‐popery riots of 1780, and Lord ...
Chapman and Hall
A publishing company founded in 1830 at 186 Strand, London, by Edward Chapman and William Hall. It owed much of its success to its early association with Dickens (Pickwick Papers having originated in ...
Charles Dickens
(1812–70),English novelist, whose first tour of the U.S. (Jan.–May 1842) is described in his American Notes for General Circulation (1842), and furnished the background for portions of Martin ...
Charles Knight
(1791–1873)Born in Windsor, the son of a bookseller; he became an influential publisher and writer who did much to introduce the sale of cheap books. Though his own formal ...
Charles Lever
(1806–72),novelist born in Dublin, qualified as an MD. His first novels, Harry Lorrequer (1839), Charles O'Malley (1841), and Jack Hinton the Guardsman (1843), were extremely popular. In 1842 he ...
Chartist Literature
A movement for universal adult male suffrage, Chartism flourished in the United Kingdom between the late 1830s and mid-1850s, and was arguably the world's first and most dramatic working-class ...
Dickens's methods of composition
Dickens himself often described his compositional habits, and several of his friends and family members recorded observations of his practices when writing, but the most important documents revealing ...
George Eliot
(1819–80),daughter of Robert Evans, agent for a Warwickshire estate. She became a convert to evangelicalism when she was at school; she was freed from this by the influence of Charles Bray, a ...
ghost Stories
A modern form of short story designed to provoke dread and unease in its readers by bringing about a crisis in which fictional characters are confronted terrifyingly by spirits of the returning dead. ...
Great Expectations
A novel by Dickens, which first appeared in All the Year Round 1860–61, published in book form 1861.It recounts the development of the character of the narrator, Philip Pirrip, commonly known as ...
Hablot Knight Browne
(1815–82)Under the pseudonym ‘Phiz’, he illustrated some of the works of Charles Dickens, R. S. Surtees, and F. E. Smedley.
Hard Times
A novel by Dickens, published 1854.Thomas Gradgrind, a citizen of Coketown, a northern industrial city, is a misguided exponent of utilitarianism, who believes in facts and statistics and brings up ...
Harper & Brothers
Large US book and magazine publisher. The brothers James, John, Wesley, and Fletcher Harper began business in 1817 as J. & J. Harper, Printers, but they quickly became large-scale modern ...
Household Words
A weekly periodical started in 1850 by Dickens, and incorporated in 1859 into All the Year Round, which he edited until his death. It published much of Dickens's own work and other writers such as ...
illustration
Although any text bearing drawings or designs of any kind may generally be described as illustrated, an illustrated manuscript is properly one that is embellished with pictures or illustrations, ...
John Forster
(1812–76),was editor of Foreign Quarterly Review, 1842–3, the Daily News, 1846, and the Examiner, 1847–55. He was the literary associate and close friend of Leigh Hunt, C. Lamb, W. S. Landor, ...
Joseph Addison
(1672–1719),was educated at Charterhouse with Steele. He was a distinguished classical scholar and attracted the attention of Dryden by his Latin poems. He travelled on the Continent (1699–1703), and ...
