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The Mid-Nineteenth-Century Novel
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1845; Tait’s Edinburgh Mag Jan 1845; Critic 1 Jan 1845; Economist
18 Jan 1845; Parker’s London Mag Feb 1845; New Monthly Belle
Assemblée Feb 1845; Illuminated Mag Feb 1845; ‘Bon Gaultier’ [T.
Martin] Tait’s Edinburgh Mag Apr 1845; [Cleghorn, T.] North Br
Rev 3 1845.
The cricket on the hearth
The cricket on the hearth: a fairy tale of home. 1846 (for 1845). Illustr
Daniel Maclise, John Leech, Richard Doyle, Clarkson Stanfield
and Edwin Landseer. The ms is in the Pierpont Morgan Lib.
Separate editions
Leipzig 1846 Tauchnitz Collection of British Authors edn (unnumbered).
New York 1846.
New York 1846.
Boston 1846.
Paris 1846.
1858 Cheap edn.
Hamburg 1872 (in English).
Berlin 1873 (in English).
1887, 1904, bound with selections from Sketches by Boz, introd by
H. Morley.
New York 1898, introd by J. Jefferson.
1906, introd by H. Caine.
1912, introd by C. Shorter, illustr L. Rossi.
Leipzig 1916 Tauchnitz Pocket Lib edn.
1933, introd by W. de la Mare, illustr Hugh Thomson.
Guildford 1981, facs of ms, introd by A. Sanders.
Dickens’s reading version
The cricket on the hearth: reading edition. 1858; in collection 1975.
See Readings, below. Prompt-copies are in the Berg Collection,
NYPL, and the William M. Elkins Collection, Free Lib of
Philadelphia.
Commentary on the text
Fielding, K. J. The manuscript of The cricket on the hearth. N & Q
197 July 1952.
Imitation
The beetle under the fender. Mephystopheles 10, 17, 31 Jan, 7 Feb
1846.
Dramatisations
See Bolton 1987 under Studies and bibliographies of adaptations,
below.
Smith, A. R. The cricket on the hearth, a fairy tale of home. 1845.
Stirling, E. The cricket on the hearth, a fairy tale of home. 1845.
Webster, B. N. The cricket on the hearth, a fairy tale of home. 1846.
Archer, T. The cricket on the hearth. Three chirps. 1846.
Lucas, W. J. The cricket on the hearth. 1846.
Barnett, C. Z. The cricket on the hearth; or, the carrier and his wife.
1846.
Townsend, W. T. The cricket on the hearth: a fairy tale of home. In
three chirps 1846.
Blanchard, E. L. The cricket on our hearth. 1846. Burlesque.
Rayner, B. F. The cricket on the hearth. 1846.
Halford, J. The cricket on the hearth. 1855.
Boucicault, D. Dot. A fairy tale of home. New York 1859.
Williams, F. The cricket on the hearth. 1877.
Cricket on the hearth. Film, Biograph 1909. Directed by D. W. Griffith.
Cricket on the hearth. Film, Biograph 1914. Produced by A. Hale.
The cricket on the hearth. Film, Biograph 1923. Script by C. F. Cooke.
Directed by L. Johnston.
Cricket on the hearth. Film, Realm Television Productions 1949.
Directed by S. Martin.
Cricket on the hearth. Animated cartoon 1968. With voices by D.
Thomas and M. Thomas.
Reviews
Literary Annual Register 1845; [Heraud, J. A.] Athenaeum 20 Dec
1845; Bell’s Weekly Messenger 21, 27 Dec 1845; Era 21 Dec 1845;
Observer 21 Dec 1845; Morning Post 22 Dec 1845; [Thackeray, W.
M.] Morning Chron 24 Dec 1845; Morning Herald 25 Dec 1845;
Atlas 27 Dec 1845; Britannia 27 Dec 1845; Critic 27 Dec 1845;
[Forster, J.? or L. Hunt?] Examiner 27 Dec 1845 (on authorship, see
P. Collins, in Dickens the Craftsman, ed R. B. Partlow, jr, 1970, and
A. Brice, Dickens Stud Newsletter 3 1972); Illus London News 27
Dec 1845; John Bull 27 Dec 1845; Literary Gazette 27 Dec 1845; The
critic on the art (of humbug) v The cricket on the hearth,
Mephystopheles 27 Dec 1845, 10, 17, 24, 31 Jan 1846; Mirror of Lit
27 Dec 1845; Northern Star 27 Dec 1845; Pictorial Times 27 Dec
1845; Spectator 27 Dec 1845; The Times 27 Dec 1845; Weekly
Chron 27 Dec 1845; Sentinel 28 Dec 1845; Weekly Dispatch 28 Dec
1845; London Jnl 2 Jan 1846; Economist 3 Jan 1846; Chambers’s
Jnl 17 Jan 1846; Oxford and Cambridge Rev Jan 1846; People’s Jnl
Jan 1846; Macphail’s Edinburgh Ecclesiastical Jnl Feb 1846;
Union Mag Feb 1846.
Studies and appreciations
Baker, H. L. An essay on Dickens and The cricket on the hearth.
Detroit 1868.
Goodburn, G. The cricket on the hearth. An early criticism.
Dickensian 13 1917.
The battle of life
The battle of life: a love story. 1846. Dickens’s name on ptd title page,
not on engraved. Illustr Daniel Maclise, John Leech, Richard
Doyle and Clarkson Stanfield. Variants. The ms is in the Pierpont
Morgan Lib.
Bibliographies
Schaw Miller, A. G. Dickens’s Battle of life. TLS 31 July 1937.
Carter, J. W. The battle of life: round three. Antiquarian Bookman 33
1964.
Todd, W. B. The battle of life: round six. BC 15 1966.
Separate editions
Paris 1847, bound with The cricket on the hearth.
New York 1847.
Philadelphia 1847.
Leipzig 1856 Tauchnitz edn, bound with The haunted man. Dated
1847 but not apparently issued as a separate vol.
1888, 1904, introd by H. Morley.
1912, introd by C. Shorter, illustr C. Green.
Leipzig 1918 Tauchnitz Pocket Lib edn.
Dramatisations
See Bolton 1987 under Studies and bibliographies of adaptations,
below.
Harris. The battle of life. Dublin 1846.
Robertson, T. W. The battle of life. [1846?].
Smith, A. [R.] The battle of life, dramatised from early proofs of the
work, by the express permission of the author. 1846.
Atkyns, S. The battle of life. 1847.
Archer, T. The battle of life. 1847.
Lyon, T. E. Battle of life; a love story. 1847.
Somerset, C. A. The battle of life. 1847.
Pitt, G. D. The battle of life. 1847.
Stirling, E. The battle of life. 1847.
Davenport, J. M. [J. B. Marriage?]. The battle of life. Norwich 1847.
Nation, W. H. C. The battle of life. 1867.
Dickens, C., the younger. The battle of life. 1873.
Ellis, W. and P. Greenwood. Marion. 1891.
Reviews
Morning Advertiser 21 Dec 1846; Morning Post 21 Dec 1846; Globe 23
Dec 1846; Morning Chron 24 Dec 1846; [Marston, J. W.]