The Dickens Project (University of California)

• About the Dickens Project
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• Publications
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• The Friends of the Dickens Project
• Dickens Fellowships
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• Our Mutual Friend Scholarly Pages
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  • The Latest Arrivals
  • "The Dickens Universe", University of California, Santa Cruz: August 2-8, 1998 (reported by Monica Bosson)
  • NEH Summer Seminar: A special opportunity for teachers
  • A Visit to the Dickens House Museum

The Victorian Web (Brown University)

• Charles Dickens
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• Articles
  • "An Interior Confronting": Death in Jane Eyre and Dombey and Son (Jacqueline Banerjee, Department of English, Kobe College, Nishinomiya, Japan)
  • Dickens's Popularity
  • Publishing in Parts, Periodicals, and Dickens's Working Methods
  • Shadow as a Symbol in Dickens and MacDonald
  • Dickens and Social Class (Humphry House)
  • Pickwick Papers Overview
  • Little Dorrit Overview
  • Great Expectations Overview
  • Blacking Factory and Dickens's Imaginative World, The
  • Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine on Dickens's Unforgettable Characters (Emily C. Constable)
  • Charles Dickens (Harry Furniss)
  • Ellen Ternan
  • Swindlers and Society in Dickens and Carlyle (Erin Wells)
  • Dickens and the Ambivalent Results of Childhood Experience (Katherine Lesch)
  • Autobiographical Elements in Dickens's Great Expectations (David Cody)
  • Characterization and Setting in Dickens's Little Dorrit (Emily C. Constable)
  • Cinematic and Televisual Representations of Dickens's Great Expectations: A Bibliography (Timothy Farrell)

Academic Resources

1. Works and Essays
   1. Sketches by Boz (1836)
   2. The Pickwick Papers (1836-7)
   3. Oliver Twist (1837-9)
   4. Nicholas Nickleby (1838-9)
   5. The Old Curiosity Shop (1840-1)
   6. Barnaby Rudge (1841)
   7. American Notes (1842)
   8. Martin Chuzzlewit (1843-4)
   9. Christmas Books (1843-49)
   10. Pictures from Italy (1844-45)
   11. Dombey and Son (1846-8)
   12. David Copperfield (1849-50)
   13. A Child's History of England (1851-53)
   14. Bleak House (1852-3)
   15. Hard Times (1854)
   16. Little Dorrit (1855-7)
   17. A Tale of Two Cities (1859)
   18. Christmas Stories (1859-67)
   19. The Uncommercial Traveller (1860)
   20. Great Expectations (1860-1)
   21. Our Mutual Friends (1864-5)
   22. The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1870)

2. Archives of VICTORIA@LISTSERV.INDIANA.EDU (Jian Liu, Reference Department, Indiana University Libraries)
   • Search
   • Subject: Dickens (Only the first 100 will be shown.)
3. Ainsworth, William Harrison (1805-82)
4. Anecdotes: Charles Dickens (Kasha Linka, Paw Prints)
5. Argonaut Theatre Company (UK) present Dickens - The Sparkler of Albion. (A Friendly Encounter with Mr. Dickens)
6. BBC
   1. Charles Dickens Research Collection: A Listing and Guide, The --the most comprehensive body of material by and about Charles Dickens and his world ever assembled in a single edition.
   2. Dickens Project -- BBC
   3. BBC: Our Mutual Friend [OMF]
      • Dickens's London
      • Dickens's Life
      • Dickens's Novel (A gateway to the study of Our Mutual Friend)
7. Beadnell, Maria (1810-86) -- Dickens met and fell in love with her in 1830.
8. Bible
   • Search
     • Bible Gateway, The
     • Virtual Christianity
   • Concordance
     • Comprehsive Christian Concordance
   • King James Version [Easy-Verse KJV Bible][Michigan][Morning Star][Online Bible][Virginia]
   • Revised Standard Version [Michigan][Virginia]
9. Bibliographies
   • A Dickens Bibliography
   • Bibliography of Literary Studies and Criticism: Dickens (Literary Theory and Criticism: A Bibliography) -- University of Zaragoza, Spain.
   • Charles Dickens: An Annotated Bibliography of Selected Works in the Rare Book Collection of Archives and Special Collections (Margaret Borgeest, University of Miami)
   • Charles Dickens Bibliography (University of Memphis)
10. Biographies
    1. Brief Biography, A (Hyper History of the World)
    2. Children's Encyclopedia: Charles Dickens
    3. The Victorian Web
    4. Dickens: A Brief Biography (David Cody, Associate Professorof English, Hartwick College)
    5. Biography Find, Charles (John Huffam) Dickens (The LOGOS Collection of Electronic Books)
    6. Biography Find, Charles (John Huffam) Dickens (The LOGOS Collection of Electronic Books)
    7. Charles Dickens (Nineteenth Century)
    8. Spectrum Biography - Charles Dickens (Spectrum Interactive Biography Interface)
    9. Dickens: A Brief Biography (David Cody, Associate Professorof English, Hartwick College)
11. Bleak House and London: English 4984 (Virginia Tech) -- A Web-Based Course.
12. British History 1700-1900: Charles Dickens (Spartacus Internet Encyclopedia)
13. THE CAMBRIDGE BIOGRAPHICAL ENCYCLOPEDIA
14. Carlyle, Thomas (1795-1881)
    • Swindlers and Society in Dickens and Carlyle (Erin Wells)
    • Dickens, Carlyle, and the Grotesque (Michael Goldberg, Carlyle and Dickens. Athens, Georgia: 1972, 190)
    • Thomas Carlyle: An Overview (The Victorian Web)
    • Social Construction of Carlyle's New England Reputation, 1834-1836 (Leon Jackson)
    • Don't Wait Until It's Too Late
    • Chartism by Thomas Carlyle
    • /~history/Mathematicians/
    • Thomas Carlyle Quotes
    • TPCN Quotations
    • Thomas Carlyle. 1795-1881.
    • Books - Thomas Carlyle (Nord Est)
    • A Life of Thomas Carlyle (Simon Heffer)
15. Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol --Study of Literature HTML Project (Leslie D. Harris, Susquehanna University)
16. Charles Dickens
    • Full of the Dickens
    • A Timeline of Charles Dickens' Stories
17. Charles Dickens 1812-1870 (Victorian Timeline)
18. Charles Dickens (S. Kathleen Kitao and Kenji KItao)
19. Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins -- The History of the Mystery: An Interactive Journey.
20. Charles Dickens: Friends and Relatives (Ritva Raesmaa)
21. Charles Dickens Lecture Hall (Western Canon University Lecture Halls and Live Recitations) [BBS]
    • Charles Dickens Live Recitation Chat
22. Charles Dickens: Life File (John Kehoe)
23. Charles Dickens Quotes (Japan)
24. Charles Dickens Quotes (Miller)
25. Charles Dickens: The Man Who Recreated Christmas (Robert William Urbaniak)
26. Cliff Notes: Charles Dickens
27. Collins, Wilkie
28. Conferences
    1. The Dickens Universe (University of California, Santa Cruz, August 1-7, 1999)
    2. The York Conference 1999 (July 16-21, 1999)
29. Conservation of Charles Dickens' Manuscripts, The (Annette Low) --an article that first appeared in the V&A Conservation Journal, no.9, October 1993.
30. Course Descriptions (Syllabi)
    • BA English 1997-8 (Berkbeck College) - Organiser: Michael Slater (course taught jointly with Steve Connor)
      • Dombey and Son: Further Reading
      • Bleak House: Further Reading
      • A Tale of Two Cities: Critical Reading
    • Dickens Resources (University of Virginia)
    • Extract from Charles Dickens's Our Mutual Friend
31. Chesterton on Caricature and Dickens (Joseph Schwartz)
32. Chesterton's article on Dickens (Encyclopaedia Britannica)
33. Cliff Notes: Charles Dickens
34. Criticisms
    • Anny Sadrin, Parentage and Inheritance in the Novels of Charles Dickens
    • Daniel Pool, What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew
    • Charles Dickens -- Steven Connor (Ed.)
    • George Harry Ford and Lauriat Lane, Jr. (ed.), The Dickens Critics
    • George Newlin, (ed.) Everyone in Dickens
    • George Newlin, (ed.) Every Thing in Dickens
    • Graham Storey, Dickens: Bleak House
    • Valerie L. Gager, Shakespeare and Dickens
35. Cruikshank, George (1792-1978)
    • AARDVARK'S CRUIKSHANK
36. Curricular Hot Topics - Charles Dickens
37. Dickens & Images of Victorian Life
38. Dickens & Andersen
39. Dickens and His Illustrators (F.G. Kitton, 1899)
40. Dickens and Madness
    • "A Madman's Manuscript" (The Pickwick Papers, Chapter XI)
    • "Idiots" (Household Words, 4 June 1853)
    • "A Curious Dance Round a Curious Tree" (Household Words, 17 January 1852)
41. Dickens Companions, The (Edinburgh University Press)
42. Dickens's Early Works v. Late Works: Principal Component Analysis (Tomoji Tabata, Osaka University)
    • Dickens's Narrative Style: A Statistical Approach to Chronological Variation
    • Narrative Style and the Frequencies of Very Common Words: A Corpus-Based Approach to Dickens's first person and third person narratives (pdf, 170K)
43. Dickens and Alfred Hitchcock (Page of the Alfred Hitchcock Scholars)
44. Dickens Glossary for American Readers (Fred Levit)
45. Dickens Humour: An Anthology
46. DICKENS SYMPOSIUM 1997 (Louisville, Kentucky--26 to 28 September 1997)
47. DICKENS' VIEWS ON THE FRENCH REVOLUTION (Jonathan Kohl)
48. Dickensians
    • Andrews, Malcolm (Editor of The Dickensian)
    • McCarthy , Patrick J. (Editor, DICKNS-L, the e-group for Dickensians)
    • Schlicke, Paul (University of Aberdeen) -- Author of Dickens and Popular Entertainment (1985) and President of the Dickens Society for 1994.
49. Dickens's Early Works v. Late Works: Principal Component Analysis (Tomoji Tabata, Osaka University)
    • Dickens's Narrative Style: A Statistical Approach to Chronological Variation
    • Dickens's Pets
    • Narrative Style and the Frequencies of Very Common Words: A Corpus-Based Approach to Dickens's first person and third person narratives (pdf, 170K)
50. Dickens's Bonfire (Paul Lewis) --Was Collins the inspiration which led Dickens to burn all his letters?
51. DICKENS' CHRISTMAS DREAM (Books C@fe)
52. Dickens's Family Tree, The
53. Dickens's Journalistic Career (James Diedrick, Albion College)
54. "The Dickens Universe, UC Santa Cruz, August 1997" (reported by Monica Bosson)
55. Different Modes: The Social Critique in Oliver Twist vs. Sketches by Boz (Greg Stoddard)
56. A Division of Labor: How Charles Dickens' Fiction and Journalism Work Together (Michael Dube)
57. Double Life of Charles Dickens, The (Janet S. Krueger and Kelley Blewster) -- The great novelist's relationship with actress Ellen Ternan.
58. Dr. Rae and Mr. Dickens - excerpts of the debate between Dickens and Dr. John Rae on Sir John Franklin's fate.
59. Charles Dickens, "Mr. Booley" (Household Words, 1850)
60. Epilepsy: Charles Dickens
61. European Cultural Digest: A blow for the poor (Charles Roberts) From The Pickwick Papers to The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Charles Dickens' works are still worth reading today.
62. Fictional 100, The: A Ranking of the Most Influential Characters in World Literature and Legend.
63. Franklyn Cards: Dickens
64. Genealogies
    1. Clickable Dicknes Family Tree, A
    2. GENEALOGICAL TABLE
    3. The Dickens Family Photographic Album (The Dickens Fellowship: Rochester Branch)
65. George Gissing
    • George Gissing, Charles Dickens: A Critical Study (e-text)
    • George Gissing, The Immortal Dickens (e-text)
    • Pierre Coustillas, "Gissing's Writings on Dickens"
66. Grave of Dickens's Father, The (John Dickens, 1785-1851)
67. Great Exhibition, The / The Crystal Palace
    • The Crystal Palace, or The Great Exhibition of 1851: An Overview (The Victorian Web)
    • Summerly's Exhibition and Paxton's Crystal Palace
    • History of the Great Exhbition of 1851
    • Exhibition Palace
    • Cristal Palace, World-Exhibition, London, 1851
68. Great Expectations (Classic Review--September 1861)
69. Holbein's Dance of Death (PP 3, NN 32, LD II, 21, MED 12)
70. Human Experiences with Architecture -- Messages about the power of architecture to enrich people's lives. (The American Architectural Foundation)
71. HOUSEHOLD WORDS: A PRELIMINARY WORD
72. Industrial Revolution, The
    • The Industrial Revolution CD ROM
73. INIMITABLE BECOMES THE INIMICAL, THE Dickens's bonfire destroys literary heritage.
74. Intimidation and Embarrassment in Conversations of Dickens' Novels (Deniz Tarba Ceylan, The Victorian Web)
75. Issues of Child Labor (UTEXAS)
76. LAST DAYS OF DICKENS, THE -- Mamie Dickens: My Father as I recall him.
77. Lawrence Frank, Charles Dickens and the Romantic Self
78. LIFE FILE by John Kehoe.
79. The Life of Our Lord, First Edition, copyright 1934 (Jan Weller)
80. Linda Putnam's Charles Dickens Lecture Page
    • Dickens and the City of London
    • Dickens and the Christmas Carol
81. Manuscripts and Annotated Proofs of the Works of Charles Dickens (Poetry in Granger, University of North Texas Libraries)
82. Mark Twain on Charles Dickens: The Great Dickens - WASHINGTON, January 11, 1868.
83. Money
    • £10 -- Charles Dickens (Details on Bank Note Characters)
84. MRQE: Movie Review Query Engine -- For example, Great Expectations (1998) has 103 reviews.
85. The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1870, 1912 ed.) -- Divided into its original instalments, edited according to the 1912 ed. by J. Cuming Walters with some text as marked by W. Robertson Nicoll. (Gaslight)
86. National Art Library, The
    --Public Online Catalogue (telnet) contains about 200,000 bibliographic descriptions.
    • The Forster Collection -- one of two very large and distinct collections within the National Art Library, the other being the Dyce Collection
87. The Nineteenth Century [UK][USA] => Search [UK][USA]
    • Search: Society and Culture [UK][USA]
    • Search: Nineteenth Century Women Writers [UK][USA]
88. Nineteenth-Century Reversions (August 7-10, 1997) (University of California, Santa Cruz)
89. Observations made during a tour of the United States, 1842 -- Charles Dickens: American Notes (BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS. February 1842. Massachusetts Asylum for the Blind; Meeting Laura Bridgeman.)
90. On Orwell on Dickens (Lars Eighner) -- This essay first appeared in The Threepenny Review (Berkeley, California) Winter 1994.
91. Page of Great Expectations, A --created by the fun loving students of Mr. Alan Hewitt's (pre-AP literature) class of Brainerd Senior High School.
92. Palmer, William J.
    • Dickens and New Historicism (London: Macmillan, 1998)
    • The Hoydens and Mr. Dickens : The Strange Affair of the Feminist Phantom ( St Martins Pr, 1997)
    • The Highwayman and Mr. Dickens (Ballantine Books, 1994)
    • The Detective and Mr. Dickens (Ballantine Books, 1992)
93. On Orwell On Dickens by Lars Eighner.
94. Poverty, Health and Housing: Charles Dickens (The Spartacus Internet Encyclopedia)
95. Publius and Dickens (Greg Riemer)
96. PUNCH: A History Project (Tony Wohl, Vassar College) --a project put together by students in History 387: Studies in Victorian Culture and Society: Prejudice and Policy.
97. Quotations
    • Familiar Quotations (John Bartlett)
    • Selected Quotations from Charles Dickens (Broadstairs)
    • Library of Congress Citations
    • BilLee
    • Isamu
98. Report on 6th British Novelists Seminar: 'Charles Dickens and his Work' (Middle East Technical University, 13-14 March 1998)
    • Grahame Smith, 'Dickens and Critical Theory'
    • Grahame Smith, 'Dickens and the City of Light'
    • Nursel Icoz, 'Evil Intentions are the Evil Person's Own Undoing'
    • Meltem Kiran Raw, 'The French Revolution in the Popular Imagination: A Tale of Two Cities'
    • Deniz Ceylan, Intimidation and Embarrassment in Conversations of Dickens' novel
    • Valrie Kennedy, Three of Dickens' Marginal Women
99. SecondViolin
100. Tate Collections: Daniel Maclise, "Charles Dickens 1839"
101. Remarks from the IBIC Editor's Journal
102. Snake-oil Dickens Man, The (Ross Gilfillan) -- a novel that posits that Charles Dickens bore a son while on his first visit to the US in 1842.
103. Technical Review: Dickens on Disk by Eric Johnson.
104. Thomas Coram and Mr. Meagles in Little Dorrit
105. UnCoverWeb (A Current Awareness and Document Delivery Service) -- a database of current article information taken from well over 17,000 multidisciplinary journals.
     • Search the UnCover database
106. Victoria and Albert Museum
     • The National Art Library [Public Online Catalogue (telnet) --contains about 200,000 bibliographic descriptions]
     • The Forster Collection
       --one of two very large and distinct collections within the National Art Library, the other being the Dyce Collection.
107. Victorian Database Online: Beta (University of Alberta) -- Type "Charles Dickens" in the title blank. 408 items are listed.
108. Victorian Database on CD-ROM (LITIR Database on Victorian Studies, University of Alberta) --a CD-ROM version of its bibliography of Victorian studies containing 25 years of bibliographical information on approximately 60,000 books, articles and research documents from 500+ journals.
109. Victorian Women Writers Project
     • Voice from the Factories, A (1836)
     • A Plain Letter to the Lord Chancellor on the Infant Custody Bill (1839)
     • Letters to the Mob (1848)
     • English Laws for Women in the Nineteenth Century (1854)
     • Letter to the Queen on Lord Chancellor Cranworth's Marriage and Divorce Bill (1855)
110. Visit to the Dickens House Museum, A (The Dickens Project) --based on the tour book available to those who can visit the actual Dickens House Museum.
111. What Collins thought of Dickens (Paul Lewis) --The few written references by Collins about his friend.
112. William J. Palmer [C]
     • Dickens and New Historicism (London: Macmillan, 1998)
     • The Hoydens and Mr. Dickens : The Strange Affair of the Feminist Phantom ( St Martins Pr, 1997)
     • The Highwayman and Mr. Dickens (Ballantine Books, 1994)
     • The Detective and Mr. Dickens (Ballantine Books, 1992)

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