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Author Charles Dickens
Genres Cross-genre i
Prose: Short Fiction i
Prose: Travel-writing i
Subjects Great Britain—Description and Travel
Transportation; Horse-Drawn Vehicles; Cab and Omnibus Service; Ballooning
Travel; Tourism; Hotels; Resorts; Seaside Resorts—Fiction; Passports;
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Retitled 'An Old Stage-Coaching House' in collected editions of the series.

Dickens touches on the national decline in coaching activity in the face of railway competition in 'Dullborough Town' but had first publicly predicted it in 1837, in his final editorial contribution to Bentley's Miscellany (see Vol. 1 of the Dent edition of Dickens's Journalism, p. 553).

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Author Charles Dickens
Genres Cross-genre i
Prose: Essay i
Prose: Report i
Subjects Associations; Institutions; Clubs; Labor Unions
Fashion; Fashion History; Clothing and Dress; Millinery; Textile Crafts; Textile Design; Cotton; Cotton Manufacture
Food; Cooking; Gastronomy; Alcohol; Bars (Drinking Establishments); Restaurants; Dinners and Dining
London (England)—Description and Travel
Poverty; Poor Laws—Great Britain; Workhouses—Great Britain
Social classes; Class distinctions; Aristocracy (Social Class); Aristocracy (Social Class)—Fiction; Middle Class; Working Class; Servants;
Work; Work and Family; Occupations; Professions; Wages
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Retitled 'The Boiled Beef of New England' in collected editions of the series.

In 'The Great Baby' and 'The Poor Man and His Beer', Dickens had attacked the combination of patronage and mistrust of the working man evinced by many charity workers and social reformers.

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Author Charles Dickens
Genre Prose: Report i
Subjects Great Britain—Description and Travel
Industries; Industrial Revolution—Great Britain; Industrialization; Industrial Safety; Industrial Laws and Legislation; Industrial Welfare; Industrial Relations;
Machinery; Machinery in the Workplace; Machinery Industry; Machinery Industry—Automation
Ships; Boats; Shipwrecks; Salvage; Merchant Marine; Sailors; Sailing; Submarines (Ships)
Travel; Tourism; Hotels; Resorts; Seaside Resorts—Fiction; Passports;
Work; Work and Family; Occupations; Professions; Wages
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Retitled 'Chatham Dockyard' in collected editions of the series.

Henry VIII first rented storehouses at Chatham to service his fleet in 1547.

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Author Charles Dickens
Genre Prose: Travel-writing i
Subjects Animals; Domestic Animals; Pets; Working Animals; Birds; Insects
Europe—Description and Travel
Europe—Social Life and Customs
Popular Culture; Amusements
Theatre; Performing Arts; Performing; Dance; Playwriting; Circus
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Retitled 'In the French-Flemish Country' in collected editions of the series.

The 'French-Flemish Country' depicted here was a former province of France known as Flandre Française, now comprising the Département du Nord, the most northerly of the French departments, bordering Belgium.

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Author Charles Dickens
Genre Prose: Essay i
Subjects Death; Grief; Mourning; Mourning Customs in Literature; Funeral Rites and Ceremonies; Life Cycle, Human; Old Age; Mortality
France—Social Life and Customs
Italy—Social Life and Customs
Medical care; Nursing; Hospitals; Hospital Care; Surgery; Medicine; Physicians
Oceania (Melanesia, Micronesia, Polynesia)—Description and Travel
Race; Racism; Ethnicity; Anthropology; Ethnography
Supernatural; Superstition; Spiritualism; Clairvoyance; Mesmerism; Ghosts; Fairies; Witches; Magic; Occultism
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Retitled 'Medicine Men of Civilisation' in collected editions of the series.

Dickens had expressed exasperation with the resurgence of popular support for the concept of 'the noble savage' in an article in HW of the same name (see Vol. 3 of the Dent edition of Dickens's Journalism, Item 19) but the present article, and others, display a considerable interest in the customs and rituals of aboriginal peoples in Asia, Australasia, Africa and the Americas, together with a tendency—central to the present paper—to instigate comparisons with the forms and ceremonies of so-called 'civilised' societies (i.e. the European) that are flattering to neither category (see, for example, Vol. 2 of the Dent edition, Item 25).

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Author Charles Dickens
Genres Cross-genre i
Prose: Report i
Prose: Short Fiction i
Subjects Architecture; Building; Housing; Property; Landlord and Tenant;
Charity; Philanthropists; Philanthropists—Fiction; Benevolence
Death; Grief; Mourning; Mourning Customs in Literature; Funeral Rites and Ceremonies; Life Cycle, Human; Old Age; Mortality
Gender Identity; Women; Men; Femininity; Masculinity
Great Britain—Social Conditions—Nineteenth Century
London (England)—Description and Travel
Medical care; Nursing; Hospitals; Hospital Care; Surgery; Medicine; Physicians
Poverty; Poor Laws—Great Britain; Workhouses—Great Britain
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Retitled 'Titbull's Alms-Houses' in collected editions of the series.

Dickens clearly signals that a composite sketch of east London almshouses is intended in the present paper.

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Author Charles Dickens
Genres Prose: Leading Article i
Prose: Occasional (Christmas Story; article in Christmas or New Year Number, &c) i
Subjects Architecture; Building; Housing; Property; Landlord and Tenant;
Character; Character Sketches; Caricature
Children; Childhood; Pregnancy; Childbirth; Child Rearing; Adoption; Child Labor
Education—Great Britain; Universities and Colleges; Schools
Family Life; Families; Domestic Relations; Sibling Relations; Kinship; Home;
Great Britain—Armed Forces; Militias
London (England)—Description and Travel
Social classes; Class distinctions; Aristocracy (Social Class); Aristocracy (Social Class)—Fiction; Middle Class; Working Class; Servants;
Work; Work and Family; Occupations; Professions; Wages
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Author Charles Dickens
Genre Prose: Occasional (Christmas Story; article in Christmas or New Year Number, &c) i
Subjects Children; Childhood; Pregnancy; Childbirth; Child Rearing; Adoption; Child Labor
Christmas; New Year; Holidays and Seasonal Celebrations
Education—Great Britain; Universities and Colleges; Schools
Family Life; Families; Domestic Relations; Sibling Relations; Kinship; Home;
Literature; Writing; Authorship; Reading; Books; Poetry; Storytelling; Letter Writing
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Authors Charles Dickens
Edmund Ollier
Genre Prose: Report i
Subjects Associations; Institutions; Clubs; Labor Unions
Social classes; Class distinctions; Aristocracy (Social Class); Aristocracy (Social Class)—Fiction; Middle Class; Working Class; Servants;
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Author Charles Dickens
Genres Prose: Leading Article i
Prose: Occasional (Christmas Story; article in Christmas or New Year Number, &c) i
Subjects Architecture; Building; Housing; Property; Landlord and Tenant;
Character; Character Sketches; Caricature
Ethics; Morals; Moral Development; Moral Education; Philosophy; Values
Family Life; Families; Domestic Relations; Sibling Relations; Kinship; Home;
France—Description and Travel
Great Britain—Social Life and Customs
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Author Charles Dickens
Genre Prose: Occasional (Christmas Story; article in Christmas or New Year Number, &c) i
Subjects Family Life; Families; Domestic Relations; Sibling Relations; Kinship; Home;
France—Description and Travel
Literature; Writing; Authorship; Reading; Books; Poetry; Storytelling; Letter Writing
Marriage; Courtship; Love; Sex
Money; Finance; Banking; Investments; Taxation; Insurance; Debt; Inheritance and Succession
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Author Charles Dickens
Genre Prose: Occasional (Christmas Story; article in Christmas or New Year Number, &c) i
Subjects Children; Childhood; Pregnancy; Childbirth; Child Rearing; Adoption; Child Labor
Commercial Products (Commodities); Material Culture; Shopping; Advertising
Family Life; Families; Domestic Relations; Sibling Relations; Kinship; Home;
Marriage; Courtship; Love; Sex
People with Disabilities; Human Body—Social Aspects; Human Bodies in Literature
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Author Charles Dickens
Genre Prose: Occasional (Christmas Story; article in Christmas or New Year Number, &c) i
Subjects Crime; Criminals; Punishment; Capital Punishment; Prisons; Penal Transportation; Penal Colonies
Dreams; Visions; Sleep
Law; Lawyers; Justice; Courts; Trials
Supernatural; Superstition; Spiritualism; Clairvoyance; Mesmerism; Ghosts; Fairies; Witches; Magic; Occultism
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Author Charles Dickens
Genre Prose: Occasional (Christmas Story; article in Christmas or New Year Number, &c) i
Subjects Family Life; Families; Domestic Relations; Sibling Relations; Kinship; Home;
Marriage; Courtship; Love; Sex
People with Disabilities; Human Body—Social Aspects; Human Bodies in Literature
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Author Charles Dickens
Genre Prose: Editorial i
Subjects France—Description and Travel
Language and Languages
Law; Lawyers; Justice; Courts; Trials
Literature; Writing; Authorship; Reading; Books; Poetry; Storytelling; Letter Writing
Newspapers; Periodicals; Journalism
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This article may have been authored by Charles Dickens; the attribution is unproven.  

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Authors Charles Dickens
Malcolm Ronald Laing Meason
Genre Prose: Editorial i
Subject Other
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Attribution to Meason derives from File 1645 of the Royal Literary Fund archive (British Library): application dates 1 March 1875. The editorial (probably by Dickens) relates back to Meason's 'Our Suburban Residence' (Vol. XV, No. 365, pp. 349-52), hence Meason probably author of the letter.

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Author Charles Dickens
Genre Prose: Occasional (Christmas Story; article in Christmas or New Year Number, &c) i
Subjects Children; Childhood; Pregnancy; Childbirth; Child Rearing; Adoption; Child Labor
Dreams; Visions; Sleep
Family Life; Families; Domestic Relations; Sibling Relations; Kinship; Home;
Railroads
Travel; Tourism; Hotels; Resorts; Seaside Resorts—Fiction; Passports;
Work; Work and Family; Occupations; Professions; Wages
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Author Charles Dickens
Genre Prose: Occasional (Christmas Story; article in Christmas or New Year Number, &c) i
Subjects Children; Childhood; Pregnancy; Childbirth; Child Rearing; Adoption; Child Labor
Dreams; Visions; Sleep
Family Life; Families; Domestic Relations; Sibling Relations; Kinship; Home;
Railroads
Religion; Religion and Culture
Travel; Tourism; Hotels; Resorts; Seaside Resorts—Fiction; Passports;
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Author Charles Dickens
Genre Prose: Occasional (Christmas Story; article in Christmas or New Year Number, &c) i
Subjects Character; Character Sketches; Caricature
Children; Childhood; Pregnancy; Childbirth; Child Rearing; Adoption; Child Labor
Food; Cooking; Gastronomy; Alcohol; Bars (Drinking Establishments); Restaurants; Dinners and Dining
France—Description and Travel
France—Social Life and Customs
National Characteristics; Nationalism
Railroads
Travel; Tourism; Hotels; Resorts; Seaside Resorts—Fiction; Passports;
Work; Work and Family; Occupations; Professions; Wages
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Author Charles Dickens
Genre Prose: Occasional (Christmas Story; article in Christmas or New Year Number, &c) i
Subjects Accidents; Accident Victims—Fiction; Fires; Search and Rescue Operations; Natural Disasters; Disasters; Disaster Relief
Psychology; Psychiatry; Mental Health; Mind-Body Relations (Metaphysics)
Railroads
Supernatural; Superstition; Spiritualism; Clairvoyance; Mesmerism; Ghosts; Fairies; Witches; Magic; Occultism
Work; Work and Family; Occupations; Professions; Wages
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