The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete

M. Taine's Criticism--What M. Taine overlooks--Anticipatory Reply to M. Taine--Paper by Mr. Lewes--Plea for Objectors to Dickens--Dickens a "Seer of Visions"--Criticised and Cri...

Dickens not a Bookish Man--Character of his Talk--Dickens made to tell his Own Story--Lord Russell on Dickens's Letters--No Self-conceit in Dickens--Letter to his Youngest Son--...

Visit from Mr. and Mrs. Fields--Places shown to Visitor--Last Paper in _All the Year Round_--Son Henry's Scholarship--A Reading of _Edwin Drood_--Medical Attendance at Readings-...

Louis Philippe dethroned--French Missive from C. D.--At Broadstairs--A Chinese Junk--What it was like--Perplexing Questions--A Type of Finality--A Contrast--Dickens's View of Te...

Sentiment about Places--Personal Revelations--At his Sister's Sick-bed--Sister's Death--Book to be written in First Person--Visiting the Scene of a Tragedy--First sees Yarmouth-...

Birth of Fifth Son--Theatrical Benefit for Leigh Hunt--Troubles at Rehearsals--Leigh Hunt's Account--Receipts and Expenses--Anecdote of Macready--At Broadstairs--Appearance of M...

Actors and Dramas--Criticism of Frédéric Lemaitre--Increase of Celebrity--French Translation of Dickens--Conventionalities of the Théâtre Français--_Paradise Lost_ at the Ambigu...

Interest of _Copperfield_--Scott, Smollett, and Fielding--Too close to the Real--Earlier and Later Methods--Dickens at Hatton-garden (1837)--Originals of Boythorn and Skimpole--...

Death of Thackeray--Dickens on Thackeray--Mother's Death--Death of his Second Son--_Our Mutual Friend_--Revising a Play--Sorrowful New Year--Lameness--Fatal Anniversary--New Rea...

Arrival at Marseilles--A Character--Villa at Genoa--Sirocco--Sunsets and Scenery--Address to Maclise--French and Italian Skies--The Mediterranean--The Cicala--French Consul of G...

Drift of the Tale--Why undervalued--Mistakes of Critics--Adherence to First Design--Design as to Paul and Sister--As to Dombey and Daughter--Real Character of Hero--Walter Gay--...

Speculators and the Public--Republican Self-help--Receipts affected by Speculators--Again at Boston--Hit of _Marigold_ and of _Boots at Holly Tree_--Chapel Readings at Brooklyn-...

Disappointments and Distastes--Compensations of Art--Misgivings--Restlessness and Impatience--Reply to a Remonstrance--Visions of Places to write Books in--Fruitless Aspirations...

Birth at Landport in Portsea--Family of John Dickens--Powers of Observation in Children--Two Years Old--In London, æt. 2-3--In Chatham, æt. 4-9--Vision of Boyhood--The Queer Sma...

Descriptions in Letters and in _Notes_--Outline of Westward Travel--An Arabian Night City--A Temperance Festival--A Party at Judge Walker's--The Party from another View--Mournfu...

Boulogne--Visits to France--His First Residence--Fishermen's Quarter--Villa des Moulineaux--M. Beaucourt--Tenant and Landlord--French Prices--Beaucourt's Visit to England--Prepa...

_Bleak House_ Sale--Proposed Titles--Restless--Tavistock House--Last Child born--Death of Friends--Liking for Boulogne--Banquet at Birmingham--Self-changes--Overdoing it--Projec...

Second Letter--International Copyright--Third Letter--The Dinner at Boston--Worcester, Springfield, and Hartford--Queer Traveling--Levees at Hartford and New Haven--At Wallingfo...

Mr. Dilke's Half-crown--Story of Boyhood told--D. C. and C. D.--Enterprise of the Cousins Lamert--First Employment in Life--Blacking-Warehouse--A Poor Little Drudge--Bob Fagin a...

First Letter from him--As he was Thirty-five Years ago--Mrs. Carlyle and Leigh Hunt--Birth of Eldest Son--From Furnival's Inn to Doughty Street--A Long-Remembered Sorrow--I visi...

Jesuit Interferences--Travel Southward--Carrara and Pisa--A Wild Journey--At Radicofani--A Beggar and his Staff--At Rome--Terracina--Bay of Naples--Lazzaroni--Sad English News--...

Outcome of Boyish Trials--Disadvantage in Later Years--Advantages--Next Move in Life--Wellington House Academy--Revisited and Described--Letter from a Schoolfellow--C. D.'s Reco...

A Sunset at Land's-end--Description of the Cornish Tour--Letter from Maclise--Maclise to J. F.--Names first given to _Chuzzlewit_--First Number of _Chuzzlewit_--Prologue to a Pl...

At Philadelphia--Rule in Printing Letters--Promise as to Railroads--Experience of them--Railway-cars--Charcoal Stoves--Ladies' Cars--Spittoons--Massachusetts and New York--Polic...

Character in the Letters--The _Notes_ less satisfactory--Personal Narrative in Letters--The Copyright Differences--Social Dissatisfactions--A Fact to be remembered--Literary Mer...

HIS first letter after again taking possession of Devonshire-terrace revived a subject on which opinions had been from time to time interchanged during his absence, and to which...

At Lausanne--Large Sale of _Dombey_--Christmas Book done--At Geneva--Back to _Dombey_--Rising against the Jesuits--The Fight in Geneva--Rifle against Cannon--Genevese "Aristocra...

Daughter Kate's Marriage--Wedding Party--Sale of Tavistock House--Brother Alfred's Death--Metropolitan Readings--Proposed Provincial Readings--Good of doing Nothing--New Subject...

Little Dorrit--A Proposed Opening--How the Story grew--Sale of the Book--Circumlocution Office--Flora and her Surroundings--Weak Points in the Book--Remains of Marshalsea visite...

Lord Brougham--French Sunday--A House taken--His French Abode--A Former Tenant--Sister Fanny's Illness--The King of the Barricades--The Morgue--Parisian Population--Americans an...

On the Rhine--Travelling Englishmen--At Lausanne--House-hunting--A Cottage chosen--First Impressions of Switzerland--Lausanne described--His Villa described--Design as to Work--...

Swiss People--Narrow Escape--Berne--Lausanne--An Old Friend--Genoa--Peschiere revisited--On the Way to Naples--Scene on Board Steamship--A Jaunt to Pisa--A Greek War-ship--At Na...

Book of MS. Memoranda--Home of the Barnacles--Original of Mrs. Clennam--River and Ferryman--Notions for _Little Dorrit_--Original of _Hunted Down_--Titles for _Tale of Two Citie...

Return from America--Longfellow in England--Thirty Years Ago--At Broadstairs--Preparing _Notes_--Fancy for the Opening of _Chuzzlewit_--Reading Tennyson--Theatricals at Margate-...

First Description of Gadshill Place--Negociations for Purchase--Becomes his Home in 1859--Gadshill a Century Ago--Antecedents of Dickens's House--Exterior and Porch--Gradual Add...

Gore-house--Liverpool and Birmingham Institutes--A Troublesome Cheque--Wrongs from Piracy--Proceedings in Chancery--Result of Chancery Experience--Reliefs to Work--M. Henri Tain...

Rough Passage--A Steamer in a Storm--Resigned to the Worst--Of Himself and Fellow-travelers--The Atlantic from Deck--The Ladies' Cabin--Its Occupants--Card-playing on the Atlant...

In Boston--Warmth of the Greeting--Old and New Friends--Changes since 1842--Sale of Tickets in New York--First Boston Reading--Profits--Scene at First New York Sales--A Fire at...

The Mountains and Lake--Manners of the People--A Country Fête--Rifle-shooting--A Marriage--Gunpowder Festivities--Progress in Work--Hints to Artist for Illustrating Dombey--Henr...

Visit to Walter Landor--First Thought of Little Nell--Hopeful of Master Humphrey--A Title for the Child-Story--First Sale of _Master Humphrey's Clock_--Its Original Plan abandon...

SO it all fell out accordingly. He parted from his disconsolate wife, as he told me in his first letter from Ferrara, on Wednesday the 6th of November: left her shut up in her p...

At Home--Project for Last Readings--What the Readings did and undid--Profit from all the Readings--Noticeable Changes--Proposed Reading from _Oliver Twist_--Parting from his You...

First Series--Exeter Audience--Impressions of Dublin--Irish Car-driver--Young Ireland and Old England--Reception in Belfast--At Harrogate--At York--At Manchester--Continued Succ...

Home Politics--Malthus Philosophy--Mark Lemon--An Incident of Character--Hood's _Tylney Hall_--Duke of Wellington--Lord Grey--A Recollection of his Reporting Days--Returns to _D...

Last Two Letters--Dickens vanquished--Obstacles to Copyright--Two described--Value of Literary Popularity--Substitute for Literature--The Secretary described--His Paintings--The...

staring raving mad across the water. I wish you would consider this. Don't you think the time has come when I ought to state that such public entertainments as I received in the...

_All the Year Round_ started--_Household Words_ discontinued--Differences with Mr. Bentley--In Search of a Name for New Periodical--Opening a Story--Success of New Periodical--A...

Friendly Plea for Mr. Macrone--Completion of Christmas Tale--The "Ghost" Story and the "Bargain"--The Tetterby Family--Moral of the Story--_Copperfield_ Sales--Letter from Russi...

His Son Walter Landor--Dies in Calcutta (1863)--C. D. and the New Poor-Law--Moore and Rogers--Jeffrey's Praise of Little Nell--Resolve to visit Scotland--Edinburgh Dinner propos...

A Fright--Fletcher's Eccentricities--The Trossachs--The Travelers' Guide--A Comical Picture--Highland Accommodation--Grand Scenery--Changes in Route--A Waterfall--Entrance to Gl...

Advantage in beginning _Barnaby_--Birth of Fourth Child and Second Son--The Raven--A Loss in the Family--Grip's Death--C. D. describes his Illness--Family Mourners--Apotheosis b...

Doubts of Success dispelled--Realities of English Life--Characters self-revealed--Miss Bates and Mrs. Nickleby--Smike and Dotheboys--A Favorite Type of Humanity--Sydney Smith an...

A Good Saying--Landor mystified--The Mirthful Side of Dickens--Extravagant Flights--Humorous Despair--Riding Exercise--First of the Ravens--The Groom Topping--The Smoky Chimneys...

First Fancy for _Edwin Drood_--Story as planned in his Mind--Nothing written of his Intentions--Merits of the Fragment--Comparison of his Early and his Late MSS.--Discovery of U...

Interest in Characters at Close of _Oliver_--Writing of the Last Chapter--Cruikshank Illustrations--Etchings for Last Volume--How executed--Slander respecting them exposed--Fals...

Palace of the Fish-ponds--Mural Paintings--Peschiere Garden--A Peal of Chimes--Governor's Levee--_Chimes_ a Plea for the Poor--Dickens's Choice of a Hero--Religious Sentiment--D...

Dickens's address to, ii. 116-119; sketch of the private reading in Lincoln's-inn-fields, ii. 174; house in Devonshire-terrace sketched by, iii. 41; death of, iii. 535; tribute...

A Picture completed--Self-judgments--Christmas Fancies--Second Number of _Dombey_--A Personal Revelation--First Thought of Public Readings--Two Tales in Hand--Christmas Book giv...

imagination has its own laws; and where characters are so real as to be treated as existences, their creator himself cannot help them having their own wills and ways. Fern the f...

The Cottage at Twickenham--Daniel Maclise--Ainsworth and other Friends--Mr. Stanley of Alderley--Petersham Cottage--Childish Enjoyments--Writes a Farce for Covent Garden--Entere...

Reporting for _True Sun_--First seen by me--Reporting for _Mirror_ and _Chronicle_--First Published Piece--Discipline and Experiences of Reporting--Life as a Reporter--John Blac...

and sublime sight. The 'muddy vesture of our clay' falls from us as we look. . . . I chartered a separate carriage for our men, so that they might see all in their own way, and...

_Sketches by Boz_--Fancy-piece by N. P. Willis: a Poor English Author--Start of _Pickwick_--Marriage to Miss Hogarth--First Connection with Chapman & Hall--Mr. Seymour's Part in...

"Don't be startled by the novelty and extent of my project. Both startled _me_ at first; but I am well assured of its wisdom and necessity. I am afraid of a magazine--just now....

Edits _Life of Grimaldi_--His Own Opinion of it--An Objection answered--His Recollections of 1823--Completion of _Pickwick_--A Purpose long entertained--Relations with Chapman &...

iii. 100 (and see i. 261, 306, 331, 356, 418). his ravens, i. 233-239; ii. 215. adventures in the Highlands, i. 263-276. first visit to the United States, i. 284. domestic grief...

Thoughts for the Future--Doubts of old Serial Form--Suggestion for his Publishers--My Mediation with them--Proposed Weekly Publication--Design of it--Old Favorites to be revived...

Greetings from America--Reply to Washington Irving--Difficulties in the Way--Resolve to go--Wish to revisit Scenes of Boyhood--Proposed Book of Travel--Arrangements for the Jour...

Peel and his Party--Getting very Radical--Thoughts of colonizing--Political Squib by C. D.--Fine Old English Tory Times--Mesmerism--Metropolitan Prisons--Book by a Workman--An A...

a Christmas book, if it must be, I try to think light of with the greater story just begun, and with this _Battle of Life_ story (of which I really think the leading idea is ver...

_Household Words_ in contemplation, ii. 449-453; title selected for, ii. 454; names proposed for, ii. 453; first number of, ii. 454; early contributors to, ii. 454; Mrs. Gaskell...

sketches in Cornwall by, ii. 42; illustrations by, to _Battle of Life_, ii. 310; price realized at the Dickens sale for the Lighthouse scenes, iii. 71 note (and see ii. 296, iii...

Sale of _Chuzzlewit_--Publishers and Authors--Unlucky Clause in _Chuzzlewit_ Agreement--Resolve to have other Publishers--A Plan for seeing Foreign Cities--Confidence in Himself...

_Barnaby Rudge_, agreement to write, i. 135 (and see 147, 148, 161-163, 177, 225); Dickens at work on, i. 186, 232-234, 239-244; agreement for, transferred to Chapman and Hall,...

early relations of Dickens with, i. 144, 145; share of copyright in _Pickwick_ conceded by, i. 145; payments by, for _Pickwick_ and _Nicholas Nickleby_, i. 145; outline of _Mast...

drinking, but I have rarely seen a man eat and drink less. He liked to dilate in imagination over the brewing of a bowl of punch, but when the punch was ready he drank less of i...

Browne (H. K.) chosen to illustrate _Pickwick_, i. 115; accompanies Dickens and his wife to Flanders, i. 135; failure of, in a _Dombey_ illustration, ii. 354, 355 (but see 348,...

eve of visit to, i. 284-291; visit to, decided, i. 285; proposed book about, i. 286; arrangements for journey, 286; rough passage to, i. 292-298; first impressions of, i. 299-30...

Louis Philippe dethroned 403 French missive from C. D. 404 Aspirations of Citizen Dickens 404 At Broadstairs 405 By rail to China 405 The Junk 406 Mariners on deck and in cabin...

Sentiment about places 457 Confidences 458 Personal revelations 458 Early memories 459 At his sister's sick-bed 459 Last thoughts 460 Sister's death 460 Book to be written in fi...

sale of, iii. 159; general design of, iii. 159; weak points in, iii. 160, 161; Von Moltke and, iii. 164; original of Mrs. Clennam in, iii. 277; notions for, iii. 278.

See before you oversee 326 M. Taine's criticism 326 What is overlooked in it 327 A popularity explained 328 National excuses for Dickens 330 Comparison with Balzac 330 Anticipat...

Dickens not a bookish man 479 Books and their critics 479 Design of present book stated 480 Dickens made to tell his own story 480 Charge of personal obtrusiveness 481 Lord Russ...

distresses of, iii. 225 note; first portion of second series planned by, iii. 258; serious illness of, iii. 260, 261; death of, iii. 261; touching incident at funeral, iii. 261...

Birth of fifth son 368 Death of Lieut. Sydney Dickens 368 Proposed benefit for Leigh Hunt 369 The plays and actors 370 The manager 370 Troubles at rehearsals 371 Pains rewarded...

Drift of the tale 337 Why undervalued 338 Mistakes of critics 338 Adherence to first design 338 Plan for Paul and his sister 339 For Dombey and his daughter 339 Proposed course...

[300] The book was thus entered in the catalogue. "DICKENS (C.), A CHRISTMAS CAROL, in prose, 1843; _Presentation Copy_, inscribed '_W. M. Thackeray, from Charles Dickens (whom...

Dickens (John), family of, i. 22; small but good library of, i. 29; money embarrassments of, i. 36, 42; character of, described by his son, i. 37; arrested for debt, i. 43; lega...

Second letter 310 International copyright 311 Third letter 311 The dinner at Boston 312 Worcester, Springfield, and Hartford 313 Queer traveling 313 Levees at Hartford and New H...

Descriptions in letters and in _Notes_ 381 Outline of westward travel 382 An Arabian-Night city 383 A temperance festival 383 A party at Judge Walker's 383 The party from anothe...

Old hopes revived 201 Notions for a periodical 201 Proposed prospectus 202 Chances for and against it 203 Swept away by larger venture 203 Christmas book of 1845 204 D'Orsay and...

First letter from him 117 As he was thirty-five years ago 118 Mrs. Carlyle and Leigh Hunt 119 Birth of eldest son 119 From Furnival's Inn to Doughty Street 119 A long-remembered...

Birthday gift for eldest son 179 Suspicious "Characters" 180 Jesuit interferences 180 Birth of 1845 180 Travel southward 181 Carrara and Pisa 181 A wild journey 182 Birds of pre...

At Philadelphia 335 Rule in printing letters 335 Promise as to railroads 336 Experience of them 337 Railway-cars 337 Charcoal stoves 337 Ladies' cars 338 Spittoons 338 Massachus...

The travel to Italy 111 A bit of character 112 French thrown away 112 The Albaro villa 113 First experiences 114 Cloudy weather 115 Sunsets and scenery 116 Address to Maclise 11...

PAGE Birth at Landport in Portsea 21 Family of John Dickens 22 Powers of observation in children 23 Two years old 23 In London, æt. 2-3 23 In Chatham, æt. 4-9 23 Vision of boyho...

Character in the letters 358 The _Notes_ less satisfactory 359 Personal narrative in letters 359 The copyright differences 360 Social dissatisfactions 360 A fact to be remembere...

Palace of the Fish-ponds 139 Rooms and frescoes 140 View over the city 141 Dancing and praying 142 Peschiere garden 142 Trying to write 143 A difficulty settled 143 Craving for...

Speculators and public 408 An Englishman's disadvantage 408 "Freedom and independence" 408 Mountain-sneezers and eye-openers 409 The work and the gain 410 A scene at Brooklyn 41...

An arrival of manuscript 295 A title 295 Large sale of _Dombey_ 296 Again at Geneva 296 Rising against the Jesuits 297 Back to Lausanne 297 The fight in Geneva 298 Rifle against...

Rough passage 293 A steamer in a storm 293 Resigned to the worst 293 Of himself and fellow-travelers 294 The Atlantic from deck 294 The ladies' cabin 294 Its occupants 295 Card-...

Last two letters 407 Dickens vanquished 407 Obstacles to copyright 408 Two described 408 Value of literary popularity 409 Substitute for literature 410 The secretary described 4...

Mr. Dilke's half-crown 48 Story of boyhood told 48 D. C. and C. D. 48 Enterprise of the cousins Lamert 49 First employment in life 51 Blacking-warehouse 51 A poor little drudge...

A greeting from Lord Brougham 316 French Sunday 317 A house taken 317 Absurdity of the abode 318 Its former tenant 319 Sister Fanny's illness 319 Opinion of Elliotson 320 The ki...

Visit to Walter Landor 200 First thought of Little Nell 200 Hopeful of Master Humphrey 201 A title for the child-story 202 First sale of _Master Humphrey's Clock_ 202 Its origin...

Falling-off in _Chuzzlewit_ sale 63 Publishers and authors 64 Premature fears 65 Resolve to change his publishers 66 Proposal to his printers 66 Desire to travel again 67 Ways a...

Actors and dramas 122 Frédéric Lemaitre 122 Last scene in _Gambler's Life_ 123 Apartment in Champs Elysées 124 French Translation of Dickens 125 Ary Scheffer and Daniel Manin 12...

A picture completed 277 Great present want 277 Daily life 278 Imaginative needs 278 Self-judgments 279 The Now and the Hereafter 279 Fancies for Christmas books 280 Second numbe...

Home politics 261 The Whigs and Peel 261 Belief in emigration schemes 262 Mark Lemon 263 An incident of character 263 Hood's _Tylney Hall_ 264 Trait of the Duke of Wellington 26...

Outcome of boyish trials 71 Disadvantage in later years 72 Advantages 73 Next move in life 74 Wellington House Academy 74 Revisited and described 75 Letter from a schoolfellow 7...

Interest of _Copperfield_ 21 Real people in novels 22 Scott, Smollett, and Fielding 22 Complaint and atonement 23 Earlier and later methods 24 Boythorn and Skimpole 26 Yielding...

Last summer and autumn 527 Showing London to a visitor 528 His son Henry's scholarship 529 Twelve more readings 530 Medical attendance at them 531 Excitement incident to them 53...

Maturing book for Christmas 442 Friendly plea for Mr. Macrone 442 Completion of Christmas story 443 Dropped motto 443 The "ghost" and the "bargain" 444 The Tetterby family 445 T...

The mountains and lake 244 The people and their manners 245 A country fête 246 Family sketch 246 Rifle-shooting 247 A marriage on the farm 248 Gunpowder festivities 248 Bride an...

A sunset at Land's-end 40 A holiday described by C. D. 41 The same described by Maclise 42 A landscape and a portrait 43 Names first given to _Chuzzlewit_ 44 Origin of the novel...

His son Walter Landor 249 Dies in Calcutta (1863) 250 C. D. and the new poor-law 250 Moore and Rogers 251 Jeffrey's praise of Little Nell 251 Resolve to visit Scotland 251 Edinb...

A good saying 217 Landor mystified 218 The mirthful side of Dickens 218 Extravagant flights 218 Humorous despair 219 Riding exercise 220 First of the ravens 220 The groom Toppin...

Interest in characters at close of _Oliver_ 152 Writing of the last chapter 153 Cruikshank illustrations 154 Etchings for last volume 154 How executed 154 Slander respecting the...

Visits to France 96 First summer residence (1853) 97 Villa des Moulineaux 98 Doll's house and offices 99 Bon garçon of a landlord 100 Making the most of it 101 Among Putney mark...

Doubts of success dispelled 165 Realities of English life 166 Characters self-revealed 167 Miss Bates and Mrs. Nickleby 167 Smike and Dotheboys 167 A favorite type of humanity 1...

Cities and people 163 Venice 164 Rapture of enjoyment 165 Aboard the city 165 What he saw and felt 165 Solitary thoughts 166 At Lodi 166 About paintings and engravings 167 Titia...

Advantage in beginning _Barnaby_ 232 Birth of fourth child and second son 233 The Raven 233 A loss in the family 234 Grip's death 235 C. D. describes his illness 235 Family mour...

A fright 264 Fletcher's eccentricities 264 The Trossachs 264 The traveler's guide 265 A comical picture 265 Highland accommodation 265 Grand scenery 266 Changes in route 267 A w...

Death of Thackeray 298 Mother's death 300 Death of second son 300 Interest in Mr. Fechter 301 Notes on theatres 302 Sorrowful new year 303 C. W. Dilke's death 303 Staplehurst ac...

characters and incidents in, iii. 21-40; original of Dora in, i. 93; name found for, ii. 422; dinners in celebration of, ii. 438, 439, 470; sale of, ii. 447; titles proposed for...

Gore-house friends 93 Sensitive for his calling 94 A troublesome cheque 95 Education speeches 95 Sufferings from stage-adaptations 96 Wrongs from piracy 96 Proceedings in Chance...

Disappointments and distastes 177 What we seem and are 178 Compensations of Art 179 Misgivings 180 A defect and a merit 181 Reply to a remonstrance 182 Dangerous comfort 183 One...

Titles proposed for _Bleak House_ 52 Restlessness 52 Tavistock House 53 Last child born 54 A young stage aspirant 54 Deaths of friends 55 At Boulogne 55 Publishing agreements 56...

Thoughts for the future 191 Doubts of old serial form 192 Suggestion for his publishers 192 My mediation with them 193 Proposed weekly publication 193 Design of it 193 Old favor...

410, 412, 416, 426, 427, 437, 441, 450. clerk in an attorney's office, i. 87. hopeless love of, i. 92, 93. employed as a parliamentary reporter, i. 96 (and see iii. 512 note). h...

Watts's Rochester charity 155 Tablet to Dickens in Cathedral 155 _Nobody's Fault_ 155 How the _Dorrit_ story grew 156 Number-Plan of _Copperfield_ 157 Number-Plan of _Dorrit_ 15...

Warmth of the greeting 388 Same cause as in 1842 388 Old and new friends 389 Changes since 1842 390 First Boston reading 391 Scene at New York sales 393 First New York reading 3...

PAGE Return from America 21 Longfellow in England 22 At Broadstairs 23 Preparing _Notes_ 23 Fancy for opening of _Chuzzlewit_ 24 Attractions at Margate 25 Being, not always Beli...

On the Rhine 222 German readers of Dickens 223 Travelling Englishmen 223 A hoaxing-match 224 House-hunting 224 Tempted by a mansion 225 Chooses a cottage 225 Earliest impression...

The Cottage at Twickenham 180 Daniel Maclise 180 Ainsworth and other friends 181 Mr. Stanley of Alderley 182 Petersham cottage 182 Childish enjoyments 182 Writes a farce for Cov...

Book of MS. memoranda 275 Originals of characters 277 Fancies put into books 277 Notions for _Little Dorrit_ 278 Suggestions for other books 279 Hints for last completed book 28...

Swiss people 76 Narrow escape 77 Lausanne and Genoa 78 The Peschiere and its owner 79 On the way to Naples 80 A night on board ship 81 A Greek potentate 82 Going out to dinner 8...

Daughter Kate's marriage 255 Charles Alston Collins 257 Sale of Tavistock House 257 Brother Alfred's death 258 Metropolitan readings 258 Provincial circuit 259 New subjects for...

_Sketches by Boz_ 107 Fancy-piece by N. P. Willis: a poor English author 107 Start of _Pickwick_ 108 Marriage to Miss Hogarth 108 First connection with Chapman & Hall 109 Mr. Se...

Health improved 444 What the readings did and undid 445 Expenses and gains in America 446 Noticeable changes in him 447 _Oliver Twist_ reading proposed 448 Objections to it 449...

Edits _Life of Grimaldi_ 141 His own opinion of it 142 An objection answered 142 His recollections of 1823 142 Completion of _Pickwick_ 143 A purpose long entertained 144 Relati...

Greetings from America 284 Reply to Washington Irving 284 Difficulties in the way 285 Resolve to go 286 Wish to revisit scenes of boyhood 286 Proposed book of travel 286 Arrange...

Reporting for _True Sun_ 96 First seen by me 97 Reporting for _Mirror_ and _Chronicle_ 97 First published piece 97 Discipline and experiences of reporting 98 Life as a reporter...

First description of it 202 The porch 204 Negotiations for purchase 204 Becomes his home 205 Gadshill a century ago 206 Past owners and tenants 207 Sinking a well 209 Gradual ad...

Peel and his party 277 Getting very radical 278 Thoughts of colonizing 278 Political squib by C. D. 278 Fine old English Tory times 279 Mesmerism 280 Metropolitan prisons 280 Bo...

_Household Words_ discontinued 240 Earliest and latest publishers 240 Dickens and Mr. Bentley 241 In search of a title 242 A title found 243 Success of new periodical 244 Differ...

Various managements 223 One day's work 224 Impressions of Dublin 225 Irish audiences 226 Young Ireland and Old England 227 Railway ride to Belfast 229 Brought near his Fame 229...

The agreement for _Edwin Drood_ 461 First fancy for it 462 Story as planned in his mind 463 What to be its course and end 463 Merits of the fragment 464 Comparison of early and...