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Author Charles Dickens
Genres Advertisement(s) i
Prose: Editorial i
Prose: Leading Article i
Subject Other
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This announcement was written solely by Dickens.
The Household Narrative of Current Events was published each month through 1855, at which time, owing to government taxing policies, it was discontinued. The scope and format of the Household Narrative are described in [this article].
The first number of the Household Narrative was not published in conjunction with the first number of Household Words because Dickens did not feel the plan of the Household Narrative was sufficiently matured. On 12 March 1850, a few weeks before the first issue of Household Words appeared, Dickens wrote to Wills: 'Supposing you had a place for the Household Narrative, and we could come distinctly to the understanding of it, I should incline to Forster's opinion. But I apprehended, last Saturday, that neither was your plan sufficiently matured, nor were the materials for its execution sufficiently considered (as to assistance and so forth) to admit of our beginning now, otherwise than short-sightedly - say with a blindness of one eye.'

Harry Stone; © Bloomington and Indiana University Press, 1968. DJO gratefully acknowledges permission to reproduce this material.

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Author Charles Knight
Genre Prose: Report i
Subjects Economics
Great Britain—Social Conditions—Nineteenth Century
London (England)—Description and Travel
Manufacturing processes; Manufacturing; Factories; Factory Management; Industrial Waste
Physical Sciences (Chemistry / Earth Sciences / Geography / Mathematics / Metallurgy / Physics)
Science; Science—History; Technology; Technological innovations; Discoveries in Science
Work; Work and Family; Occupations; Professions; Wages
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Author Charles Dickens
Genres Cross-genre i
Prose: Report i
Prose: Short Fiction i
Subjects Family Life; Families; Domestic Relations; Sibling Relations; Kinship; Home;
Great Britain—Social Conditions—Nineteenth Century
London (England)—Description and Travel
Marriage; Courtship; Love; Sex
Popular Culture; Amusements
Race; Racism; Ethnicity; Anthropology; Ethnography
Social classes; Class distinctions; Aristocracy (Social Class); Aristocracy (Social Class)—Fiction; Middle Class; Working Class; Servants;
Theatre; Performing Arts; Performing; Dance; Playwriting; Circus
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Author Thomas Noon Talfourd
Genre Poetry: Occasional (Christmas, &c.) i
Subjects Biography
Law; Lawyers; Justice; Courts; Trials
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Lizzie Leigh [iii]

13/4/1850

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Author Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Genre Prose: Serial Fiction i
Subjects Accidents; Accident Victims—Fiction; Fires; Search and Rescue Operations; Natural Disasters; Disasters; Disaster Relief
Children; Childhood; Pregnancy; Childbirth; Child Rearing; Adoption; Child Labor
Family Life; Families; Domestic Relations; Sibling Relations; Kinship; Home;
Gender Identity; Women; Men; Femininity; Masculinity
Great Britain—Social Conditions—Nineteenth Century
Marriage; Courtship; Love; Sex
Religion; Religion and Culture
Religion—Christianity—General
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The Seasons

13/4/1850

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Author William Cox Bennett
Genre Poetry: Lyric i
Subjects Beauty, Personal; Grooming; Appearance (Philosophy); Physiognomy
Death; Grief; Mourning; Mourning Customs in Literature; Funeral Rites and Ceremonies; Life Cycle, Human; Old Age; Mortality
Gender Identity; Women; Men; Femininity; Masculinity
Nature; Nature (Aesthetics); Nature in Literature; Landscapes
Weather; Meteorology; Climate; Seasons
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Authors William Weir
W[illiam] H[enry] Wills
Genre Prose: Essay i
Subjects Engineering;
Latin America—Description and Travel
Race; Racism; Ethnicity; Anthropology; Ethnography
Ships; Boats; Shipwrecks; Salvage; Merchant Marine; Sailors; Sailing; Submarines (Ships)
Transportation; Horse-Drawn Vehicles; Cab and Omnibus Service; Ballooning
Travel; Tourism; Hotels; Resorts; Seaside Resorts—Fiction; Passports;
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Author Richard H. Horne
Genres Cross-genre i
Prose: Report i
Prose: Short Fiction i
Subjects Animals; Domestic Animals; Pets; Working Animals; Birds; Insects
Children; Childhood; Pregnancy; Childbirth; Child Rearing; Adoption; Child Labor
Energy; Fuel; Gas; Coal; Peat
Great Britain—Social Conditions—Nineteenth Century
Industries; Industrial Revolution—Great Britain; Industrialization; Industrial Safety; Industrial Laws and Legislation; Industrial Welfare; Industrial Relations;
Natural Sciences (Astronomy / Botany / Geology / Natural History / Oceanography / Paleontology / Zoology)
Science; Science—History; Technology; Technological innovations; Discoveries in Science
Work; Work and Family; Occupations; Professions; Wages
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Author Charles Dickens
Genres Cross-genre i
Prose: Leading Article i
Prose: Report i
Prose: Short Fiction i
Prose: Travel-writing i
Subjects Popular Culture; Amusements
Travel; Tourism; Hotels; Resorts; Seaside Resorts—Fiction; Passports;
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The germ of this article can be found in a letter of Dickens to Charles Knight of 26 March 1850 (Pilgrim, Vol. VI, p. 73) in which he describes watching a globe-maker at work and revolving in his mind 'some faint idea of describing him as a traveller who was for ever going round the world without stirring out of that small street'. In the event he applied the idea to the current rage for Panoramas and Dioramas, which had been given fresh impetus in 1849 by the great success of Banvard's Panorama of the Mississippi, already publicly praised by Dickens. For a detailed account of the Panorama/Diorama phenomenon, see Chs 10–15 of R. D. Altick's The Shows of London (1978), and R. Hyde, Panoramania! The Art and Entertainment of the 'All-Embracing' View, the catalogue of an exhibition at the Barbican Art Gallery, London (1988–9).

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Loaded Dice

20/4/1850

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Author Catherine Crowe
Genre Prose: Short Fiction i
Subjects Great Britain—Armed Forces; Militias
Social classes; Class distinctions; Aristocracy (Social Class); Aristocracy (Social Class)—Fiction; Middle Class; Working Class; Servants;
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Author James Henry Leigh Hunt
Genre Poetry: Lyric i
Subjects Death; Grief; Mourning; Mourning Customs in Literature; Funeral Rites and Ceremonies; Life Cycle, Human; Old Age; Mortality
Dreams; Visions; Sleep
Religion; Religion and Culture
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Author W[illiam] H[enry] Wills
Genre Prose: Digest; Review i
Subjects Education—Europe; Universities and Colleges; Schools
Education—Great Britain; Universities and Colleges; Schools
Europe—Social Conditions
Great Britain—Social Conditions—Nineteenth Century
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In large part from Joseph Kay's The Social Condition and Education of the People in England and Europe (1850).

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The Lady Alice

20/4/1850

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Author William Allingham
Genre Poetry: Narrative i
Subjects Death; Grief; Mourning; Mourning Customs in Literature; Funeral Rites and Ceremonies; Life Cycle, Human; Old Age; Mortality
Supernatural; Superstition; Spiritualism; Clairvoyance; Mesmerism; Ghosts; Fairies; Witches; Magic; Occultism
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Allingham noted in his diary for Sunday, 7 April 1850: 'A guinea from Household Words for "Lady Alice," with a compliment from Dickens—indicating that at this stage in its publishing history, the magazine paid at least some contributors in advance of publication: in this instance almost as soon as the make-up of the number was decided. Also that the some brief editorial acknowledgement accompanied the payment.

Source: H. Allingham and D. Radford, eds, William Allingham. A Diary (London: Macmillan, 1907), p. 58.

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Author Charles Knight
Genre Prose: Essay i
Subjects Great Britain—Commerce
Science; Science—History; Technology; Technological innovations; Discoveries in Science
Work; Work and Family; Occupations; Professions; Wages
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Author W[illiam] H[enry] Wills
Genre Prose: Short Fiction i
Subjects Great Britain—Armed Forces; Militias
Great Britain—Social Conditions—Nineteenth Century
Supernatural; Superstition; Spiritualism; Clairvoyance; Mesmerism; Ghosts; Fairies; Witches; Magic; Occultism
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Author Richard H. Horne
Genres Cross-genre i
Prose: Report i
Prose: Serial Fiction i
Subject Work; Work and Family; Occupations; Professions; Wages
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Supposing! [i]

20/4/1850

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Author Charles Dickens
Genre Prose: Essay i
Subject Great Britain—Politics and Government
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Pet Prisoners

27/4/1850

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Author Charles Dickens
Genres Prose: Leading Article i
Prose: Report i
Subjects Crime; Criminals; Punishment; Capital Punishment; Prisons; Penal Transportation; Penal Colonies
Great Britain—Social Conditions—Nineteenth Century
London (England)—Description and Travel
Poverty; Poor Laws—Great Britain; Workhouses—Great Britain
Psychology; Psychiatry; Mental Health; Mind-Body Relations (Metaphysics)
Religion; Religion and Culture
Work; Work and Family; Occupations; Professions; Wages
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Author Percival Leigh
Genre Prose: Short Fiction i
Subjects Crime; Criminals; Punishment; Capital Punishment; Prisons; Penal Transportation; Penal Colonies
Curiosities and Wonders
Great Britain—History
Great Britain—Politics and Government
Monarchy
Progress; Memory; Commemoration; Nostaliga; Time—Social Aspects; Time—Psychological Aspects; Time perception;
Public Health; Sanitation; Water
Religion; Religion and Culture
Religion—Christianity—Catholic Church
Religion—Christianity—Protestantism; Dissenters, Religious
War; Battles; Peace; Military History; Weapons; Soldiers
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Baptismal Rituals

27/4/1850

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Author W[illiam] H[enry] Wills
Genre Prose: History i
Subjects Europe—History
Great Britain—History
Religion; Religion and Culture
Religion—Christianity—Catholic Church
Religion—Christianity—Church of England
Religion—Christianity—General
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