Nonfiction · 1912
Miscellaneous Papers
Dickens out of his novels and in his own voice on public questions. Two 1844 squibs open the volume — "The Agricultural Interest", proposing that the manufacturing interest be indicted for conspiracy, and a threatening letter to Thomas Hood from an ancient gentleman. Then the serious journalism: "Crime and Education", on the ragged schools; the three long letters on capital punishment written for the Daily News in 1846, arguing against the public gallows and then against the punishment itself; and "The Spirit of Chivalry in Westminster Hall". The later pieces are memorial and critical — the obituary of Thackeray written for the Cornhill within weeks of his death, introductions to Adelaide Anne Procter's poems and to Chauncey Hare Townshend's religious papers, and an essay on the acting of Charles Fechter.
The papers appeared between 1844 and 1869 in the Morning Chronicle, the Daily News, the Cornhill and elsewhere, and were gathered into the collected editions of Dickens's works after his death.
This Bibliomancer edition presents the collected papers complete.
Contents
- The Agricultural Interest
- Threatening Letter to Thomas Hood from an Ancient Gentleman
- Crime and Education
- Capital Punishment
- II
- III
- The Spirit of Chivalry in Westminster Hall
- In Memoriam W. M. Thackeray
- Adelaide Anne Procter Introduction to Her “Legends and Lyrics”
- A Betrothal
- A Marriage
- On Mr. Fechter’s Acting
- Footnote
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1812–1870 · Victorian
Charles Dickens (1812–1870) was born at Portsmouth and worked as a child in a blacking factory while his father was imprisoned for debt — an experience he drew on for the rest of his life. A parliamentary reporter by twenty, he became the most popular novelist in English with The Pickwick Papers (1836–37) and never lost that place: Oliver Twist, A Christmas Carol (1843), David Copperfield, Bleak House, Little Dorrit, A Tale of Two Cities (1859) and Great Expectations (1861) followed. He died at Gad’s Hill, Kent.
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