5 THE MYSTERY OF THE PUBLIC READINGS
1 Philip Collins (ed.), Charles Dickens: Sikes and Nancy and Other Public Readings, p. 112
2 Vladimir Nabokov, Lectures on Literature, p. xvi
3 Dolby, Charles Dickens As I Knew Him, p. 272
4 Collins, Sikes and Nancy, p. 108
5 Ibid., p. 110
6 Ibid., p. 113
7 Ibid.
8 Ibid.
9 21 March 1858, Pilgrim, Vol. VIII, p. 534
10 W. L. Sargent, Essays of a Birmingham Manufacturer, quoted in K. Theodore Hoppen, The Mid-Victorian Generation, 1846–1886, p. 56
11 Hoppen, The Mid-Victorian Generation, p. 243
12 Fielding (ed.), The Speeches of Charles Dickens, p. 209
13 Collins, Sikes and Nancy, p. viii
14 Johnson, Charles Dickens: His Tragedy and Triumph, p. 50
15 Fielding (ed.), The Speeches of Charles Dickens, p. 264
16 Johnson, Charles Dickens: His Tragedy and Triumph, p. 949
17 Quoted in T. S. Eliot, The Poems of T. S. Eliot, Vol. I, pp. 595–6
18 Andrews, Charles Dickens and His Performing Selves, pp. 50–2
19 17 April 1867, Pilgrim, Vol. XI, p. 353
20 Andrews, Charles Dickens and His Performing Selves, p. 144
21 Ibid., p. 147
22 Johnson, Charles Dickens: His Tragedy and Triumph, p. 997
23 Dolby, Charles Dickens As I Knew Him, p. 267
24 Slater, Charles Dickens: A Life Defined by Writing, p. 557
25 Ibid., p. 558
26 Philip Collins (ed.), Dickens: Interviews and Recollections, pp. 323–9
27 23 January 1870, Pilgrim, Vol. XII, p. 471
28 Tomalin, Invisible Woman, p. 29
29 Ibid.
30 5 November 1867, Pilgrim, Vol. XI, p. 472
31 Jenny Hartley, The Selected Letters of Charles Dickens, p. 416
32 Dolby, Charles Dickens As I Knew Him, p. 159
33 Clarence Dickinson Long, Wages and Earnings in the United States, 1860–1890, p. 328
34 Dolby, Charles Dickens As I Knew Him, p. 211
35 Ibid., p. 237
36 Ibid., p. 227
37 Ibid., p. 174
38 Ibid., p. 176
39 Ibid., p. 320
40 Ibid., p. 305
41 Ibid., p. 332
42 Ibid., p. 329
43 Nikolaus Pevsner, Buildings of England: London except the Cities of London and Westminster, p. 132
44 John Betjeman, First and Last Loves, p. 80
45 Forster, The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I, p. 21
46 George Curry, Charles Dickens and Anne Fields pp. 9, 27, quoted in Slater, Charles Dickens: A Life Defined by Writing, p. 580
47 Quoted ibid., p. 525
48 Quoted in T. S. Eliot, The Poems of T. S. Eliot, Vol. I, p. 124
49 Letter to William Powell Frith, 16 November 1868, Pilgrim, Vol. III, p. 678
50 Dolby, Charles Dickens As I Knew Him, p. 278
51 Johnson, Charles Dickens: His Tragedy and Triumph, p. 1102
52 Collins, Sikes and Nancy, p. 23
53 Forster, The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I, p. 242
54 Johnson, Charles Dickens: His Tragedy and Triumph, p. 1103
55 Ibid.
56 Quoted in Collins, Sikes and Nancy, p. 229, and Dexter, Walter (ed.), The Letters of Charles Dickens, Vol. III, p. 687
57 Dolby, Charles Dickens As I Knew Him, p. 385
58 23 January 1870, Pilgrim, Vol. XII, p. 470
59 Dolby, Charles Dickens As I Knew Him, p. 324
60 Ibid., p. 371
61 Ibid.
6 THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD
1 G. K. Chesterton, Charles Dickens, p. 51
2 Dolby, Charles Dickens As I Knew Him, p. 420
3 Mike Jay, Emperors of Dreams, p. 69
4 Ibid.
5 Ibid., p. 85
6 James T. Fields, Yesterdays with Authors, p. 202
7 Pilgrim, Vol. XII, p. 9
8 Fred Kaplan, Dickens and Mesmerism, p. 184
9 Ibid., p. 5
10 Jonathan Miller to the author
11 Kaplan, Dickens and Mesmerism, p. 32
12 Quoted ibid., p. 34
13 Ibid., p. 52
14 Ibid., p. 61
15 Quoted ibid., p. 19
16 Townshend married, but the union, which produced no children, ended on 30 August 1843, after seventeen years. This termination was concluded by a deed of separation on 6 September 1845, with ‘unhappy differences’ cited as the cause. Rosemary Scott, ‘Chauncy Hare Townshend’, ODNB, Vol. 55, p. 152
17 Kaplan, Dickens and Mesmerism, p. 65
18 Ibid., p. 64
19 Johnson, Charles Dickens: His Tragedy and Triumph, p. 454
20 William Toynbee, The Diaries of William Charles Macready, quoted in Kaplan, Dickens and Mesmerism, p. 71
21 Alex Jenner, ‘A Psychiatrist Looks at The Mystery of Edwin Drood’, Changes: An International Journal of Psychology and Psychotherapy, Vol.11, No. 4, 1993
22 Storey, Dickens and Daughter, p. 73
23 Johnson, Charles Dickens: His Tragedy and Triumph, p. 288
24 Pilgrim, Vol. VIII, p. 471
25 Johnson, Charles Dickens: His Tragedy and Triumph, p. 541
26 6 August 1869, Pilgrim, Vol. XII, p. 390
27 Mid-July 1869 (no date), ibid., p. 377
28 Robert Tracy, ‘Jasper’s Plot: Inventing the Mystery of Edwin Drood’, Dickens Quarterly, Vol. 23, No. 1, March 2006
29 Johnson, Charles Dickens: His Tragedy and Triumph, p. 1098
30 Philip Larkin, ‘The Old Fools’, The Complete Poems, p. 196
31 Storey, Dickens and Daughter, p. 245
7 THE MYSTERY OF CHARLES DICKENS
1 Storey, Dickens and Daughter, p. 137
2 Johnson, Charles Dickens: His Tragedy and Triumph, p. 1155
3 Ibid.
4 Ibid., p. 1156
5 Rowland E. Prothero, The Life and Correspondence of Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, DD, Vol. II, pp. 322–3
6 Johnson, Charles Dickens: His Tragedy and Triumph, p. 854
7 Prothero, The Life and Correspondence of Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, DD, Vol. II, p. 324
8 Chesterton, Charles Dickens, p. 79
9 John Witheridge, Excellent Dr Stanley: The Life of Dean Stanley of Westminster, p. 47
10 Gwen Watkins, Dickens in Search of Himself, p. 153
11 Quoted in Leavis, Dickens the Novelist, p. 260
12 Philip Larkin, Letters to Monica, p. 53
13 Pilgrim, Vol. VIII, p. 643
14 Chesterton, Charles Dickens, p. 70
15 Tomalin, Invisible Woman, p. 234
16 Leavis, Dickens the Novelist, p. 260
INDEX
Abercrombie, John, 260–61
Ackroyd, Peter, 11
Addams, Charles, 225
Adelphi, Liverpool, 227
Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The (Twain), 302
Agassiz, Louis, 220
Ainsworth, William Harrison, 113
Alaska, 223
Albany, New York, 222
Albert, Prince Consort, 38, 139, 161
alcohol, 168–70, 269
Alive or Dead?, 314
All the Year Round, 99, 126, 145, 153, 158, 212, 214, 215, 219, 229, 285
American Civil War (1861–5), 214, 223
American Notes (Dickens), 164
American Revolution (1765–83), 262
‘Among School Children’ (Yeats), 206
Ampthill Square, Camden Town, 12, 21, 317
Andersen, Hans Christian, 38, 134
Anderson, Wesley, 197
Angel in the House, The (Patmore), 136
Anglesey, Marquess of, see Paget, Henry
Anglo-Saxon Primer (Sweet), 20
animal magnetism, 253, 255, 260–70
Anne of Cleves, 136
Aristotle, 28
Arnold, Thomas, 188
Artists’ Benevolent Fund, 36
Atalanta, 9
Athenaeum, The, 74
atmospherics, 282–4
Auden, Wystan Hugh, 225, 249
Austen, Jane, 6, 272, 307, 308
Austin, Letitia, 26, 70, 78, 297
Australia, 27, 40, 149, 151, 181, 182, 249
autism, 94–5
Autobiographical Fragment (1849), 60, 91, 95, 121, 155
Baltimore, Maryland, 222
de Balzac, Honoré, 43, 81, 87, 140–41, 202, 257
Banbury Road, Oxford, 20
Barnaby Rudge (Dickens), 58, 84, 297, 312, 313
Barrow, Charles, 76
Barrow, Mary, 63, 69
Barrow, Thomas Culliford, 63
Battle of Life, The (Dickens), 158
Battle of Trafalgar (1805), 61
Baudelaire, Charles, 141
Bayer Pharmaceuticals, 244, 246
Bayswater, London, 317
Beadnell, George, 106
Beadnell, Maria, see Winter, Maria
Beard, Frank, 99, 238, 286, 297
Beard, Thomas, 99
Beatles, The, 300
‘Begging-Letter Writer, The’ (Dickens), 154
Belfast, Ireland, 210, 310
‘Bénédiction’ (Baudelaire), 141
Benham, William, 313–14, 315, 316
Bentham, Jeremy, 77, 81, 147, 172, 179, 188
Berg Collection, New York Public Library, 199, 216
Bernard, William Bayle, 207
Bethnal Green, London, 24
Betjeman, John, 227, 309
Bettelheim, Bruno, 94–5
Biggles series (Johns), 302
Birmingham, West Midlands, 203, 204, 209
Blake, William, 118
Bleak House (Dickens), 21, 39, 43, 62, 67, 90, 94, 114, 146, 200, 215, 280, 282
Bleak House, Broadstairs, 46, 125
Bloomsbury, London, 25, 40, 102
Boer War (1899–1902), 300
Boleyn, Anne, 136
Bonchurch, Isle of Wight, 297
Boots at the Holly-Tree Inn (Dickens), 197
Boston, Massachusetts
mesmerism in, 266
Parkman–Webster murder case (1849), 250–53, 279
public reading tours, 123, 220–21, 224–6, 229, 250
Boswell, James, 121
Boulton, Matthew, 64
Bowen, Elizabeth, 46–7, 48, 303
Bradford, Yorkshire, 205
Bright, John, 188
British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), 304
British Empire, 120
British Museum, London, 25, 103, 167, 295
Broadstairs, Kent, 46, 125, 145, 297, 314
Brontë sisters, 6, 204
Brooklyn, New York, 222
Brothers Grimm, 29
Brougham, Henry, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux, 154
Browne, Hablot Knight, 118, 119
Browne, John Collis, 246
Browning, Robert, 155
Bruce, Thomas, 7th Earl of Elgin, 295
Bubbles (Millais), 292
Buffalo, New York, 222, 225
Bulgakov, Mikhail, 308
Bulwer-Lytton, Robert, 1st Earl of Lytton, 104, 147
Burdett-Coutts, Angela, 122, 131, 146, 147–53, 156
Burdett, Francis, 147
burlesque, 5, 27, 30, 33, 35
Burnett, Frances ‘Fanny’, 62, 70, 78, 93, 101
Buss, Robert William, 45–6, 118
Byron, George Gordon, 234, 319
Camden Town, Middlesex, 70, 77, 228
Ampthill Square, 12, 21
Bayham Street, 96, 228
Drummond Street, 206
Gloucester Crescent, 100, 102–6
School for Girls, 45
Wellington House Academy, 155, 206, 228
Canning, George, 63
Canterbury Tales (Chaucer), 7
Canterbury, Kent, 7, 247, 272, 274
capital punishment, 175, 176–7
Carey, John, 299, 305
Carlyle, Thomas, 37, 81, 121, 155, 162, 178–81, 183, 234, 293
Caroline of Brunswick, Queen consort of the United Kingdom, 139
Carrow, Goldsmith Day, 215
Catholicism, 23, 164, 166, 311
Chadwick, Edwin, 188
Chalk, Kent, 119–20
Chamberlain, Joseph, 190, 209
Chandler, Raymond, 308
Chaplin, Charlie, 29, 238
Chapman and Hall, 45, 116–18, 120
Chapman, Edward, 116, 120
Chappell of Bond Street, 212, 226
Charing Cross, London, 102, 227, 296
Charles Dickens and the House of Fallen Women (Hartley), 150–51, 155, 156–7
Charles Dickens As I Knew Him (Dolby), 226
Charles Street, London, 62
Chatham, Kent, 35, 55, 64, 69–70, 77, 112, 126, 216, 271, 273, 284
Chaucer, Geoffrey, 7, 135
Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, 237
Chester, Cheshire, 238
Chesterton, George Laval, 151
Chesterton, Gilbert Keith, 298, 311
Childs, George William, 243
Chimes, The (Dickens), 94, 158, 234
China, 220
chlorodyne, 246
cholera, 165
Christ in the House of His Parents (Millais), 159, 291
Christianity, 48, 146, 147, 160, 162, 164–70, 191, 265, 311
Christmas, 24, 146, 157–61, 174, 186–7
games at Gad’s Hill, 53–4, 60, 73, 74, 99, 206
pantomimes, 27, 29, 35
Christmas Carol, A (Dickens), 59, 104, 156, 157, 158, 161, 173, 174, 180, 187, 191–2
public readings, 182, 204–5, 232, 235
Cinderella, 29
Clarke, Mary Cowden, 293
Cleveland Street, London, 62
Workhouse, 39, 64, 66, 68, 188
Clive, Catherine ‘Kitty’, 268
Cobden, Richard, 188
Cold Bath Fields, Middlesex, 151
Cole, Henry, 161
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 247
Collins, Charles, 101, 105
death (1870), 297
Collins, Katey, see
Perugini, Catherine
Collins, William Wilkie, 7, 9, 10, 15–16, 38, 70, 145, 250, 280
Frozen Deep, The, 7, 9, 10, 32, 38, 39, 201, 206, 207, 248, 297, 316
Moonstone, The, 253, 283–4
New Magdalen, The, 314
Woman in White, The, 137
Collyer, Robert Hanham, 266
Comédie humaine, La (Balzac), 257
Comte de Gabalis (Villars), 260
Connolly, John, 104
Convent Thoughts (Collins), 101
Cook, Edward Dutton, 103
Cook, Lynda, 103
Cooper, Anthony, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury, 165
Corn Laws, 186
Cornelius, Anne, 130
corporal punishment, 300, 305
Cousine Bette (Balzac), 257
Coutts, Thomas, 147
Covent Garden, London, 25, 68, 102
Cox, Arthur, 273
Cranmer, Thomas, 136
Crewe Hall, Cheshire, 62
Crewe, John, 63
Cricket on the Hearth, The (Dickens), 158, 204, 209, 232
Crimean War (1853–6), 209
Crockford’s Clerical Directory, 317
Cruikshank, George, 37, 61, 119
Cuba, 220, 221
Curious Dance Round a Curious Tree, A (Dickens), 28
Curwen, John, 186
Cuvier, Georges, 262
Daily News, 115, 149
Darwin, Charles, 172
David Copperfield (Dickens), 10, 21, 42, 46, 79, 106, 116, 146, 195
as autobiographical, 27, 29, 39, 42, 71, 79, 195, 248, 277
Doctor Strong’s, 247, 272
Em’ly, 149–50, 151, 257
evangelicalism in, 164
pantomime and, 29–30
parents, influenc
e of, 71, 91–2
Preface (1867), 46
public readings, 235
sex in, 257
Swinburne on, 195
voice in, 200
de la Rue family, 268–70
Dean Street, Soho, 37
Death of Chatterton, The (Wallis), 140
death penalty, 175, 176–7
Derby, Lord, see Smith-Stanley, Edward
Devonshire Terrace, Regent’s Park, 25, 125
Dickens and Christmas (Hawksley), 159
Dickens and Daughter (Storey), 17
Dickens and the Workhouse (Richardson), 39, 64
Dickens in Search of Himself (Watkins), 299–300, 305
Dickens Museum, Doughty Street, 210
Dickens World, The (House), 67
Dickens, Alfred (b. 1814), 62, 78
Dickens, Alfred (b. 1822), 26, 70, 78
Dickens, Augustus, 26, 70, 78, 111, 140
Dickens, Catherine ‘Kate’ (wife, born Hogarth), 10, 92, 95, 99–141, 220, 271
Birmingham Christmas reading (1853), 205
British Museum letters donation (1879), 103
cruelty towards, 129–30
death of Charles (1870), 103, 104, 286
Forster and, 104, 123, 130
Italy trip (1844), 268, 269–70
mental illness accusation, 103–4, 105
Mesmerism and, 260
as mother figure, 31, 130
Naples trip (1845), 128
public reading tours and, 201, 202, 205, 219–20
separation from Charles (1858), 11, 42, 100, 131–41
Violated Letter (1858), 132–3
Warren’s Blacking, knowledge of, 72, 95, 121
wedding to Charles (1836), 119
Dickens, Charles ‘Charley’ (b. 1837), 103, 120, 148, 233, 286, 296
Dickens, Dora, 25, 125
Dickens, Edward, 125
Dickens, Elizabeth, 26, 30–32, 62, 69, 76, 82, 88–96, 101
Dickens, Frances ‘Fanny’, see Burnett, Frances
Dickens, Frederick, 70, 78, 112, 121, 140
Dickens, Harriet, 70, 78
Dickens, Henry ‘Harry’, 53, 54, 105, 296, 305, 316
Dickens, John, 24–7, 30, 35, 40, 58, 61–4, 69, 74–7, 92–3, 105, 111
Dickens, Katey, see Perugini, Catherine
Dickens, Letitia, see Austin, Letitia
Dickens, Mary ‘Mamie’,21–2, 38, 105, 122, 286, 296
Dickens, William (b. 1716), 63
Dickens, William (b. 1783), 62
Dickens’s Dream (Buss), 45–6
Dickensian, The, 273
Dilke, Charles Wentworth, 74–6, 78, 79, 84
‘Dinner at Poplar Walk, A’ (Dickens), 116
Disraeli, Benjamin, 147
divided self, 5, 10, 41–2, 58–9, 155, 232, 252–4, 279, 286, 291
divorce, 135–9
Dixon’s, Hull, 230
Doctors’ Commons, London, 111–12, 119
Dodd, John, 62
Dodd, Ken, 196
Dolby, George, 198, 212–13, 219–22, 224–6, 229, 232, 235–7