Complete Works of Wilkie Collins (2368 page)

Charles Dickens.
Born February the Seventh 1812. Died June the
Ninth 1870.

#

The highest associations of both the arts he loved surround him where he lies. Next to him is Richard Cumberland. Mrs. Pritchard’s monument looks down upon him, and immediately behind is David Garrick’s. Nor is the actor’s delightful art more worthily represented than the nobler genius of the author. Facing the grave, and on its left and right, are the monuments of Chaucer, Shakespeare, and Dryden, the three immortals who did most to create and settle the language to which Charles Dickens has given another undying name.

FINIS.

APPENDIX.

I.

THE WRITINGS OF CHARLES DICKENS.

1835.

Sketches by Boz. Illustrative of Every-day Life and Every-day People. (The detached papers collected under this title were in course of publication during this year, in the pages of the
Monthly Magazine
and the columns of the
Morning
and the
Evening Chronicle
.) i. ; ; ; ; ; .

1836.

Sketches by Boz. Illustrative of Every-day Life and Every-day People. Two volumes: Illustrations by George Cruikshank. (Preface dated from Furnival’s Inn, February 1836.) John Macrone.

The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. Edited by Boz. With Illustrations by R. Seymour and Phiz (Hablot Browne). (Nine numbers published monthly from April to December.) Chapman and Hall.

Sunday under Three Heads. As it is; as Sabbath Bills would make it; as it might be made. By Timothy Sparks. Illustrated by H. K. B. (Hablot Browne). Dedicated (June 1836) to the Bishop of London. Chapman & Hall. i. .

The Strange Gentleman. A Comic Burletta, in two acts. By “Boz.” (Performed at the St. James’s Theatre, 29th of September 1836, and published with the imprint of 1837.) Chapman & Hall. i. .

The Village Coquettes. A Comic Opera, in two acts. By Charles Dickens. The Music by John Hullah. (Dedication to Mr. Braham is dated from Furnival’s Inn, 15th of December 1836.) Richard Bentley. i. .

Sketches by Boz. Illustrated by George Cruikshank. Second Series. One volume. (Preface dated from Furnival’s Inn, 17th of December 1836.) John Macrone.

1837.

The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. Edited by Boz. (Eleven numbers, the last being a double number, published monthly from January to November. Issued complete in the latter month, with Dedication to Mr. Serjeant Talfourd dated from Doughty-street, 27th of September, as
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. By Charles Dickens.
) Chapman & Hall. i. -; -. iii. .

Oliver Twist; or the Parish Boy’s Progress. By Boz. Begun in
Bentley’s Miscellany
for January, and continued throughout the year. Richard Bentley.

1838.

Oliver Twist. By Charles Dickens, Author of the Pickwick Papers. With Illustrations by George Cruikshank. Three volumes. (Had appeared in monthly portions, in the numbers of
Bentley’s Miscellany
for 1837 and 1838, with the title of
Oliver Twist; or the Parish Boy’s Progress
. By Boz. Illustrated by George Cruikshank. The Third Edition, with Preface dated Devonshire-terrace, March 1841, published by Messrs. Chapman & Hall.) Richard Bentley. i. ; -; -. iii. , ; .

Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi. Edited by “Boz.” Illustrated by George Cruikshank. Two volumes. (For Dickens’s small share in the composition of this work, his preface to which is dated from Doughty-street, February 1838, see i. -.) Richard Bentley.

Sketches of Young Gentlemen. Illustrated by Phiz. Chapman & Hall. i. .

Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby. By Charles Dickens. With Illustrations by Phiz (Hablot Browne). (Nine numbers published monthly from April to December.) Chapman & Hall.

1839.

Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby. (Eleven numbers, the last being a double number, published monthly from January to October. Issued complete in the latter month, with dedication to William Charles Macready.) Chapman & Hall. i. ; -. ii. , ; . iii. .

Sketches by Boz. Illustrative of Every-day Life and Every-day People. With forty Illustrations by George Cruikshank. (The first complete edition, issued in monthly parts uniform with
Pickwick
and
Nickleby
, from November 1837 to June 1839, with preface dated 15th of May 1839.) Chapman & Hall. i. -.

1840.

Sketches of Young Couples; with an urgent Remonstrance to the Gentlemen of England, being Bachelors or Widowers, at the present alarming crisis. By the Author of Sketches of Young Gentlemen. Illustrated by Phiz. Chapman & Hall, i. .

1840-1841.

Master Humphrey’s Clock. By Charles Dickens. With Illustrations by George Cattermole and Hablot Browne. Three volumes. (First and second volume, each 306 pp.; third, 426 pp.) For the account of this work, published in 88 weekly numbers, extending over the greater part of these two years, see i. -; ; , . In addition to occasional detached papers and a series of sketches entitled Mr. Weller’s Watch, occupying altogether about 90 pages of the first volume, 4 pages of the second, and 5 pages of the third, which have not yet appeared in any other collected form, this serial comprised the stories of The Old Curiosity Shop and Barnaby Rudge; each ultimately sold separately in a single volume, from which the pages of the
Clock
were detached. Chapman and Hall.

I. Old Curiosity Shop (1840).

Began at p. 37 of vol. i.; resumed at intervals up to the appearance of the ninth chapter; from the ninth chapter at p. 133, continued without interruption to the close of the volume (then issued with dedication to Samuel Rogers and preface from Devonshire-terrace, dated September 1840); resumed in the second volume, and carried on to the close of the tale at p. 223. i. -, iii. , .

II. Barnaby Rudge (1841).

Introduced by brief paper from Master Humphrey (pp. 224-8), and carried to end of Chapter XII. in the closing 78 pages of volume ii., which was issued with a preface dated in March 1841. Chapter XIII. began the third volume, and the story closed with its 82nd chapter at p. 420; a closing paper from Master Humphrey (pp. 421 — 426) then winding up the Clock, of which the concluding volume was published with a preface dated November 1841. i. , ; -; -; -; -.

1841.

The Pic-Nic Papers by Various Hands. Edited by Charles Dickens. With Illustrations by George Cruikshank, Phiz, &c. Three volumes. (To this Book, edited for the benefit of Mrs. Macrone, widow of his old publisher, Dickens contributed a preface and the opening story, the
Lamplighter
.) Henry Colburn. i. ; ; ; .

1842.

American Notes for General Circulation. By Charles Dickens. Two volumes. Chapman and Hall. ii. -; .

1843.

The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit. With Illustrations by Hablot Browne. (Begun in January, and, up to the close of the year, twelve monthly numbers published). Chapman & Hall.

A Christmas Carol in Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas. By Charles Dickens. With Illustrations by John Leech. (Preface dated December 1843.) Chapman & Hall. ii. , ; , ; -.

1844.

The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit. With Illustrations by Hablot Browne. (Eight monthly numbers issued; the last being a double number, between January and July; in which latter month the completed work was published, with dedication to Miss Burdett Coutts, and Preface dated 25th of June.) Chapman & Hall. ii. -; , ; -; -; -. iii. .

Evenings of a Working Man. By John Overs. With a Preface relative to the Author, by Charles Dickens. (Dedication to Doctor Elliotson, and Preface dated in June.) T. C. Newby. ii. , .

The Chimes: a Goblin Story of some Bells that Rang an Old Year out and a New Year in. By Charles Dickens. With Illustrations by Maclise R.A., Stanfield R.A., Richard Doyle, and John Leech. Chapman & Hall. ii. -; -; -; , ; .

1845.

The Cricket on the Hearth. A Fairy Tale of Home. By Charles Dickens. With Illustrations by Maclise R.A., Stanfield R.A., Edwin Landseer R.A., Richard Doyle, and John Leech. (Dedication to Lord Jeffrey dated in December 1845.) Bradbury & Evans (for the Author). ii. -; ; .

1846.

Pictures from Italy. By Charles Dickens. (Published originally in the
Daily News
from January to March 1846, with the title of “Travelling Letters written on the Road.”) Bradbury & Evans (for the Author). ii. ; ; -; ; , .

Dealings with the Firm of Dombey and Son, Wholesale, Retail, and for Exportation. By Charles Dickens. With Illustrations by Hablot Browne. (Three monthly numbers published, from October to the close of the year.) Bradbury & Evans. (During this year Messrs. Bradbury & Evans published “for the Author,” in numbers uniform with the other serials, and afterwards in a single volume,
The Adventures of Oliver Twist, or the Parish Boy’s Progress
. By Charles Dickens. With 24 Illustrations by George Cruikshank. A new Edition, revised and corrected.).

The Battle of Life. A Love Story. By Charles Dickens. Illustrated by Maclise R.A., Stanfield R.A., Richard Doyle, and John Leech. (Dedicated to his “English Friends in Switzerland.”) Bradbury & Evans (for the Author). ii. ; , ; , ; , ; -; -; -.

1847.

Dealings with the Firm of Dombey and Son. (Twelve numbers published monthly during the year.) Bradbury & Evans.

First Cheap Issue of the Works of Charles Dickens. An Edition, printed in double columns, and issued in weekly three-halfpenny numbers. The first number, being the first of
Pickwick
, was issued in April 1847; and the volume containing that book, with preface dated September 1847, was published in October. New prefaces were for the most part prefixed to each story, and each volume had a frontispiece. The first series (issued by Messrs. Chapman and Hall, and closing in September 1852) comprised Pickwick, Nickleby, Curiosity Shop, Barnaby Rudge, Chuzzlewit, Oliver Twist, American Notes, Sketches by Boz, and Christmas Books. The second (issued by Messrs. Bradbury & Evans, and closing in 1861) contained Dombey and Son, David Copperfield, Bleak House, and Little Dorrit. The third, issued by Messrs. Chapman & Hall, has since included Great Expectations (1863), Tale of Two Cities (1864), Hard Times and Pictures from Italy (1865), Uncommercial Traveller (1865), and Our Mutual Friend (1867). Among the Illustrators employed for the Frontispieces were Leslie R.A., Webster R.A., Stanfield R.A., George Cattermole, George Cruikshank, Frank Stone A.R.A., John Leech, Marcus Stone, and Hablot Browne. See ii.
 
and .