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Author Charles Dickens
Genres Prose: Editorial i
Prose: Leading Article i
Subjects Literature; Writing; Authorship; Reading; Books; Poetry; Storytelling; Letter Writing
Newspapers; Periodicals; Journalism
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Author Charles Dickens
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Subjects Literature; Writing; Authorship; Reading; Books; Poetry; Storytelling; Letter Writing
Newspapers; Periodicals; Journalism
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Author Charles Dickens
Genre Prose: Essay i
Subjects Crime; Criminals; Punishment; Capital Punishment; Prisons; Penal Transportation; Penal Colonies
Great Britain—Social Life and Customs
Language and Languages
Law; Lawyers; Justice; Courts; Trials
Police; Detectives; Mystery and Detective Stories; Mystery; Mystery Fiction; Forensic Sciences
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Reprinted as 'The Ruffian' in collected editions of the series.

Matthew Arnold uses the word 'rough' in the euphemistic, softening sense Dickens objects to, throughout Ch. 2 ('Doing as One Likes') of Culture and Anarchy (1869), where he argues that 'the difference between an Irish Fenian and an English rough is ...immense', and that 'the Hyde Park rough' 'has not yet quite found his groove and settled down to his work, and so he is just asserting his personal liberty a little, going where he likes, assembling where he likes, bawling as he likes, hustling as he likes'.

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Author Charles Dickens
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Subjects Literature; Writing; Authorship; Reading; Books; Poetry; Storytelling; Letter Writing
Newspapers; Periodicals; Journalism
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To the Public

5/12/1868

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Author Charles Dickens
Genres Prose: Editorial i
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Author Charles Dickens
Genre Prose: Travel-writing i
Subjects Dreams; Visions; Sleep
Religion; Religion and Culture
Religion—Christianity—General
Ships; Boats; Shipwrecks; Salvage; Merchant Marine; Sailors; Sailing; Submarines (Ships)
Travel; Tourism; Hotels; Resorts; Seaside Resorts—Fiction; Passports;
United States—Description and Travel
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Retitled 'Aboard Ship' in collected editions of the series.

The present item and the six which follow it comprise the final series of Uncommercial Traveller papers.

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Author Charles Dickens
Genre Prose: Report i
Subjects Charity; Philanthropists; Philanthropists—Fiction; Benevolence
Children; Childhood; Pregnancy; Childbirth; Child Rearing; Adoption; Child Labor
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 'A Small Star in the East' in collected editions of the series.

The electioneering described in the present item relates to the campaign which led to the resounding Liberal victory in the General Election of November 1868, following which Disraeli resigned as Prime Minister on 2 December, and Gladstone formed his first ministry, with Lord Clarendon as foreign secretary and Robert Lowe as chancellor.

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Author Charles Dickens
Genres Prose: Autobiography; Biography; Memoirs; Obituary; Anecdotes i
Prose: Travel-writing i
Subjects Food; Cooking; Gastronomy; Alcohol; Bars (Drinking Establishments); Restaurants; Dinners and Dining
Great Britain—Description and Travel
Travel; Tourism; Hotels; Resorts; Seaside Resorts—Fiction; Passports;
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Retitled 'A Little Dinner in an Hour' in collected editions of the series.

Dickens had been in Paris in early June 1868, staying at the Hôtel du Helder prior to the opening night at the 'Vaudeville' of his play No Thoroughfare, co-written with Wilkie Collins.

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Author Charles Dickens
Genres Prose: Autobiography; Biography; Memoirs; Obituary; Anecdotes i
Prose: Essay i
Subjects Children; Childhood; Pregnancy; Childbirth; Child Rearing; Adoption; Child Labor
Education—Great Britain; Universities and Colleges; Schools
Literature; Writing; Authorship; Reading; Books; Poetry; Storytelling; Letter Writing
Theatre; Performing Arts; Performing; Dance; Playwriting; Circus
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Retitled 'Mr. Barlow' in collected editions of the series.

In a letter to Forster of September 1847, Dickens refers to 'the great British novelists'—Fielding, Smollett and Sterne—suggesting that many people would be interested in an essay 'recalling how one read them as a child (no one read them younger than I, I think), and how one gradually grew up into a different knowledge of them, and so forth' (Pilgrim, Vol. V, p. 158).

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Author Charles Dickens
Genres Prose: Essay i
Prose: Travel-writing i
Subjects Great Britain—Social Conditions—Nineteenth Century
London (England)—Description and Travel
Police; Detectives; Mystery and Detective Stories; Mystery; Mystery Fiction; Forensic Sciences
Poverty; Poor Laws—Great Britain; Workhouses—Great Britain
Urbanization; Urban Life and Landscapes
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Retitled 'On an Amateur Beat' in collected editions of the series.

Between 1866 and 1868, some eight acres of narrow streets and courts were cleared 'hard by Temple Bar' in preparation for the building of the Royal Courts of Justice, to ambitious designs by George E. Street; construction work continued until 1882 (Hill, 35.5).

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Author Charles Dickens
Genres Prose: Autobiography; Biography; Memoirs; Obituary; Anecdotes i
Prose: Essay i
Subjects Fame; Famous People; Celebrity
Health; Diseases; Personal Injuries; Hygiene; Cleanliness—Fiction
Literature; Writing; Authorship; Reading; Books; Poetry; Storytelling; Letter Writing
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Retitled 'A Fly-Leaf in a Life' in collected editions of the series.

Dickens's 'Farewell Tour' of public readings in the provinces had come to an abrupt end at Preston on 22 April, when medical advisers agreed with him that 'the readings must be stopped' in view of 'symptoms that must not be disregarded' (Nonesuch, Vol. III, p. 722).

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Author Charles Dickens
Genre Prose: Essay i
Subjects Animals; Domestic Animals; Pets; Working Animals; Birds; Insects
Associations; Institutions; Clubs; Labor Unions
Ethics; Morals; Moral Development; Moral Education; Philosophy; Values
Religion; Religion and Culture
Religion—Christianity—General
Temperance; Alcoholism
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Retitled 'A Plea for Total Abstinence' in collected editions of the series.

In the first of his 'Sketches of London' for the Evening Chronicle (31 Jan 1835; see Vol. 1 of the Dent edition of Dickens's Journalism, p. 83) Dickens as 'Boz' had declared that 'we are as great friends to horses... as the renowned Mr Martin'.

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Author Charles Dickens
Genre Prose: History i
Subject Great Britain—History
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Compiled in large part from Thomas Keightley, The History of England, and from George L. Craik and Charles MacFarlane, The Pictorial History of England.

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Author Charles Dickens
Genres Prose: Essay i
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Subjects Gender Identity; Women; Men; Femininity; Masculinity
Great Britain—Politics and Government
Literature; Writing; Authorship; Reading; Books; Poetry; Storytelling; Letter Writing
Myth; Legends; Epic Literature; Fables; Allegory; Folklore
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In July 1853 Cruikshank issued the first number of his projected Fairy Library, a re-telling of the story of 'Hop-O'-My-Thumb, and the Seven-League Boots' accompanied by some splendid illustrations.

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Author Charles Dickens
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Subject Great Britain—History
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Compiled in large part from Thomas Keightley, The History of England, and from George L. Craik and Charles MacFarlane, The Pictorial History of England.

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Author Charles Dickens
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Subjects Gender Identity; Women; Men; Femininity; Masculinity
Law; Lawyers; Justice; Courts; Trials
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Dickens had long been furiously indignant about the law's apparent inability to put an end to the persecution of the millionaire philanthropist Angela Burdett Coutts by an Irish barrister called Richard Dunn.

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Compiled in large part from Thomas Keightley, The History of England, and from George L. Craik and Charles MacFarlane, The Pictorial History of England.


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