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Author Wilkie Collins
Genres Prose: Leading Article i
Prose: Serial Fiction i
Subjects Accidents; Accident Victims—Fiction; Fires; Search and Rescue Operations; Natural Disasters; Disasters; Disaster Relief
Biography
Children; Childhood; Pregnancy; Childbirth; Child Rearing; Adoption; Child Labor
Gender Identity; Women; Men; Femininity; Masculinity
Great Britain—Social Life and Customs
Health; Diseases; Personal Injuries; Hygiene; Cleanliness—Fiction
Law; Lawyers; Justice; Courts; Trials
Literature; Writing; Authorship; Reading; Books; Poetry; Storytelling; Letter Writing
Marriage; Courtship; Love; Sex
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Shipwrecks

21/7/1860

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Genres Cross-genre i
Prose: Essay i
Prose: Short Fiction i
Subjects Accidents; Accident Victims—Fiction; Fires; Search and Rescue Operations; Natural Disasters; Disasters; Disaster Relief
Great Britain—Description and Travel
Great Britain—Politics and Government
Health; Diseases; Personal Injuries; Hygiene; Cleanliness—Fiction
Medical care; Nursing; Hospitals; Hospital Care; Surgery; Medicine; Physicians
Ships; Boats; Shipwrecks; Salvage; Merchant Marine; Sailors; Sailing; Submarines (Ships)
Weather; Meteorology; Climate; Seasons
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Opening a Barrow

21/7/1860

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Genres Cross-genre i
Prose: Essay i
Prose: Short Fiction i
Subjects Civilization—Ancient
Great Britain—Description and Travel
Great Britain—History
Race; Racism; Ethnicity; Anthropology; Ethnography
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Author Charles Dickens
Genres Cross-genre i
Prose: Essay i
Prose: Short Fiction i
Subjects Great Britain—Social Conditions—Nineteenth Century
Health; Diseases; Personal Injuries; Hygiene; Cleanliness—Fiction
London (England)—Description and Travel
Medical care; Nursing; Hospitals; Hospital Care; Surgery; Medicine; Physicians
Poverty; Poor Laws—Great Britain; Workhouses—Great Britain
Urbanization; Urban Life and Landscapes
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Retitled 'Night Walks' in collected editions of the series 

In March of the year 1851, Dickens's father entered a painful last illness, resulting in his death on the final day of the month. He was buried on the 4th of April, in Highgate cemetery. On the morning of the 3rd, Dickens wrote to W.H. Wills from his bed at Tavistock House, to say that 'I took my threatened walk last night' and that 'I am so worn out by the sad arrangements ... that I cannot take my natural rest' (see Pilgrim, Vol. VI, p. 345–46&n.). The letter goes on to propose an all-night visit to the Bow-street Station House, described in 'The Metropolitan Protectives' (HW, Vol. III [26 Apr 1851], pp. 97–105; repr. in Stone, Vol. I, pp. 253–73), and remind Wills that the following night 'we go to the gas-works'. The letter thus indicates at least three consecutive night expeditions made by Dickens during a period of insomnia provoked by his father's death, and suggests a possible derivation of the narrator's opening remarks (and the description of Bow-street coffee shops) in Dickens's personal experience.

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Author Charles Allston Collins
Genres Cross-genre i
Prose: Essay i
Prose: Report i
Subjects Great Britain—Social Life and Customs
London (England)—Description and Travel
Popular Culture; Amusements
Theatre; Performing Arts; Performing; Dance; Playwriting; Circus
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Author Wilkie Collins
Genre Prose: Serial Fiction i
Subjects Crime; Criminals; Punishment; Capital Punishment; Prisons; Penal Transportation; Penal Colonies
France—Description and Travel
France—History
Police; Detectives; Mystery and Detective Stories; Mystery; Mystery Fiction; Forensic Sciences
Religion—Christianity—Catholic Church
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21/7/1860

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Genre Advertisement(s) i
Subject Other
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Advertisement for a New Serial Tale by Charles Lever
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21/7/1860

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Subject Other
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