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Household Words > Volume XV > Magazine No. 378
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The Best Authority

20/6/1857

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Author Charles Dickens
Genres Prose: Essay i
Prose: Leading Article i
Subject Great Britain—Social Life and Customs
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The comic device of a distracted search for a frequently named but always elusive figure which Dickens uses in this entertaining diatribe against portentous gossips prefigures Twemlow's bewildered attempts to identify the Veneerings' 'oldest friend' in Our Mutual Friend.

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Household Words > Volume XV > Magazine No. 378
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Grayrigg Grange

20/6/1857

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Author Thomas Wilkinson Speight
Genre Prose: Short Fiction i
Subjects Death; Grief; Mourning; Mourning Customs in Literature; Funeral Rites and Ceremonies; Life Cycle, Human; Old Age; Mortality
Family Life; Families; Domestic Relations; Sibling Relations; Kinship; Home;
Marriage; Courtship; Love; Sex
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Household Words > Volume XV > Magazine No. 378
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Author Eliza Lynn Linton
Genres Prose: Digest; Review i
Prose: Snippet i
Subjects Life Sciences (Physiology / Biology / Immunology / Medicine / Pharmacology / Anatomy / Ecology)
Race; Racism; Ethnicity; Anthropology; Ethnography
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Based on John W. Draper, Human Physiology (1856).

Household Words > Volume XV > Magazine No. 378
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Handel

20/6/1857

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Author Henry Morley
Genre Prose: Digest; Review i
Subject Music; Musical Instruments; Songs; Singing; Opera
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Based on Victor Schoelcher, The Life of Handel (1857).

Household Words > Volume XV > Magazine No. 378
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Author William Blanchard Jerrold
Genres Prose: Report i
Prose: Travel-writing i
Subjects Agriculture; Fishing; Forestry; Gardening; Horticulture
Food; Cooking; Gastronomy; Alcohol; Bars (Drinking Establishments); Restaurants; Dinners and Dining
France—Description and Travel
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Household Words > Volume XV > Magazine No. 378
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Authors Eliza Lynn Linton
W[illiam] H[enry] Wills
Genre Prose: History i
Subjects Ethics; Morals; Moral Development; Moral Education; Philosophy; Values
Great Britain—History
Great Britain—Social Life and Customs
Law; Lawyers; Justice; Courts; Trials
Violence; Torture; Violence in Literature; Violence—Moral and Ethical Aspects; Violence—Psychological Aspects
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Household Words > Volume XV > Magazine No. 378
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20/6/1857

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Genre Advertisement(s) i
Subjects Literature; Writing; Authorship; Reading; Books; Poetry; Storytelling; Letter Writing
Newspapers; Periodicals; Journalism
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1) Advertisement for the Fifteenth Volume of Household Words.
2) Advertisement for The Dead Secret.

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