Category: Biographies

The Letters of Charles Dickens. Vol. 2, 1857-1870

All through this year, Charles Dickens was constantly moving about from place to place. After much and careful consideration, he had come to the determination of, for the future, giving readings for his own benefit. And although in the spring of this year he gave one reading o...

Chapters

1. Chapter 1

All through this year, Charles Dickens was constantly moving about from place to place. After much and careful consideration, he had come to the determination of, for the future...

10. Chapter 10

Readings, Dickens's public, for charities, i. 297, 341, 377; ii. 4, 169, 170; first reading for his own benefit, ii. 39; at Paris, ii. 187, 189, 192; in America, ii. 267; farewe...

5. Chapter 5

Dickens, Kate, nickname of, i. 76; marriage of, ii. 107, 113; illness of, ii. 266, 271; and see ii. 39, 75, 77, 84, 221, 410, 436, 446; letters to, i. 178; ii. 99

4. Chapter 4

Broadstairs, Dickens at, i. 4, 6, 17, 28, 36, 53, 134, 170, 185, 213, 240; ii. 84, 99; description of lodgings at, i. 33; amusements of, i. 180, 182; size of Fort House at, i. 254

9. Chapter 9

Wills, W. H., i. 148-150, 219, 221, 222, 244, 250, 285, 286, 292, 295, 299, 303, 304, 307, 315, 333, 334, 352, 357, 384, 387, 401, 407, 408, 410, 415, 433, 450, 452; ii. 119, 16...

7. Chapter 7

Compton, Mrs., ii. 22 Cooke, T. P., ii. 21 Costello, Dudley, i. 104, 205 Croker, J. Crofton, i. 275 Cunningham, Peter, i. 195, 270, 312, 356 Dallas, Mrs., ii. 195, 434 Deane, F....

8. Chapter 8

373, 383, 424, 429, 436 Major, Mrs., ii. 196 Makeham, John, ii. 444 Marston, Dr. Westland, ii. 43 Milnes, R. Monckton, i. 41 Mitton, Thomas, i. 10, 19, 56, 58, 65, 121, 136, 458...

3. Chapter 3

"Barnaby Rudge" written and published, i. 36; Dickens's descriptions of the illustrations of: the raven, i. 38; the locksmith's house, i. 39; rioters in The Maypole, i. 45; scen...

2. Chapter 2

Autograph of Dickens in 1833, i. 2; Dickens leaves his in Shakespeare's room, i. 13; of Boz, i. 43; of Dickens as Bobadil, i. 195; facsimile of Dickens's handwriting in 1856, i....

6. Chapter 6

Brookfield, Mrs., ii. 249 Brookfield, Rev. W., ii. 199, 200 Brooks, Shirley, ii. 423, 438 Carlisle, the Earl of, i. 253, 281; ii. 12, 118, 157 Cartwright, Samuel, ii. 348 Catter...