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To Ariel. 1838. Written in Priscilla Horton’s album 26 Oct 1838. Ariel
was one of her stage-roles. See Dickensian 30 1934.
The loving ballad of Lord Bateman. Illustr George Cruikshank.
1839, 1841, 1870 (rev, by Dickens?). On authorship, see A. L. Haight,
Colophon, New York 1939 and Pilgrim Letters vol 1, p. 536n.
Dickens wrote the preface and notes and adapted at least part of
the text, based on a traditional ballad. Rptd ‘by Charles Dickens
and W. M. Thackeray’ 1969, with note by L. C. Staples.
Examiner 1841. The fine old English gentleman (7 Aug), The quack
doctor’s prescription (14 Aug), Subjects for painters: after Peter
Pindar (21 Aug). Signed W. See Forster, Life bk 2 ch 12.
Prologue to The patrician’s daughter: a tragedy in five acts by J.
Westland Marston. Produced 10 Dec 1842, Drury Lane; pbd 1841
without the Prologue. Prologue in Sunday Times 11 Dec 1842 (and
other jnls); another version in Letters vol 1, 1880.
A word in season. In Keepsake, ed Countess of Blessington 1844.
Signed Charles Dickens.
Prologue to The elder brother, by Fletcher and Massinger, spoken to
Miss Kelly at a benefit performance at her theatre by Dickens’s
company, 3 Jan 1846.
Daily News 1846. The British lion: a new song but an old story (24
Jan, signed Catnach), The hymn of the Wiltshire labourers (14
Feb, signed Charles Dickens). The Hymn rptd in Gems from the
spirit mine, pbd by the League of Universal Brotherhood, 1850.
Charade sent to Henry Riley Bradbury 3 June 1847; rptd Pilgrim
Letters vol 5 appendix A.
Elegy written in a country churchyard. Parody sent to Mary Boyle 3
Dec 1849. See Dickensian 16 1920 (facs); rptd Pilgrim Letters vol 5
appendix H.
Starr, H. W. Dickens’s parody of Gray’s Elegy. Dickensian 51 1955.
New song. Signed T. Sparkler. In letter to Mark Lemon, 25 June 1849.
Prologue (‘Prologues and epilogues, in good old days’), hitherto
unpublished. Dickensian 37 1941. To Jerrold’s The housekeeper?
Prologue and The song of the wreck for Wilkie Collins’s The lighthouse.
1855.
Prologue to Wilkie Collins’s The frozen deep. 1856.
Doubtful or supposititious play and poems
The strategems of Rozanza: a Venetian comedietta by C. J. H. Dickens.
1828. The existence of this ms, not in Dickens’s handwriting, has
been reported; apparently unpbd, its authenticity is not established.
Probably a trn of a Goldoni play. See Dickensian 22 1926 and
J. W. T. Ley, note to his edn (1928) of Forster’s Life, bk 1 ch 4.
Household Words 1850–1. Hiram Power’s Greek slave (26 Oct 1850);
Aspire! (25 Jan 1851). These poems, often attributed to Dickens
through a misunderstanding of the Household Words contributors’
book, are by E. B. Browning and another. See A. Lohrli, Greek
slave mystery, N & Q 211, Feb 1966.
Child’s hymn. In The wreck of The Golden Mary, Household Words
Christmas no 1856. Attributed to Dickens on evidence of a letter
to Rev R. H. Davies (Forster’s Life bk 11 ch 3), probably misunderstood.
See B. W. Matz, Dickensian 12 1916.
The blacksmith. All the Year Round 30 Apr 1859. Attributed to
Dickens on the evidence of Rev T. B. Lawes (Forster’s Life bk 8 ch
5), but challenged by F. G. Kitton, Literature 15 Sep 1900, referring
to the ‘office’ set of All the Year Round (now lost). See W.
Miller and J. Suddaby, Dickensian 11 1915.
Other minor works and papers
Sunday under three heads: as it is; as Sabbath Bills would make it; as
it might be made. By Timothy Sparks. 1836 (illustr H. K. Browne);
1884 (facs, introd); Manchester [1884] (facs, introd); London 1994,
bound with Sketches by Boz and pieces from Bentley’s Misc, in
Dickens’ journalism vol 1, ed M. Slater, below.
Contemporary reviews. Dickensian 32 1936.
Johnson, E. Dickens and the bluenose legislator. Amer Scholar 17
1948.
A newly discovered Dickens fragment. Ed G. Seawim, Dickensian 54
1958. Theatrical Advertisement, Extraordinary, in Bentley’s Misc
Feb 1837. See note by M. Morley, Dickensian 57 1961.
Sketches of young gentlemen, dedicated to the young ladies, with
six illustrations by Phiz. 1838. Anon. See below, Sketches of young
couples.
Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi, edited by ‘Boz’ with illustrations by
George Cruikshank. 2 vols 1838 (variants); rev C. Whitehead 1846;
1853, 1866, 1884; ed P. Fitzgerald 1903; ed R. Findlater 1968.
Dickens wrote a preface and rewrote Grimaldi’s ms; ‘he has not
swelled the quantity of matter, but materially abridged it’
(preface).
The suppressed letter respecting Grimaldi. Dickensian 34 1938. A
suppressed prefatory note, ptd in part in Forster, Life bk 2 ch 2.
Stott, R. T. Boz’s Memoirs of Grimaldi. BC 15 1966. Bibliographical.
Sketches of young couples, with an urgent remonstrance to the gentlemen
of England (being bachelors or widowers) on the present
alarming crisis, by the author of Sketches of young gentlemen,
with six illustrations by Phiz. 1840. Anon. Rptd with Sketches of
young gentlemen as Sketches of young couples and young gentlemen,
by Boz 1846, and with Sketches of young ladies as
Sketches of young couples, young ladies, young gentlemen, by
Quiz, illustr Phiz, [1869]. Quiz (Edward Caswall) was the author
of Sketches of young ladies, 1837, to which Dickens’s Sketches of
young gentlemen, 1838, was a riposte.
The Pic Nic papers, by various hands. Edited by Charles Dickens,
with illustrations by George Cruikshank, Phiz etc. 3 vols 1841.
Variants. Introduction (in vol 2) and The lamplighter’s story (in
vol 1) by Dickens; the latter adapted from the farce, The lamplighter
(see above, Plays). The farce and the story rptd, ed W. L.
Phelps, New York 1926.
Grubb, G. G. and L. Mason. Dickens and J. C. Neal’s Charcoal
sketches. Dickensian 46 1950.
American notes
American notes for general circulation. 2 vols 1842 (variants);
Tauchnitz Collection of British Authors no 32, Leipzig 1842;
Cheap edn 1850 (and in 12 weekly pts, 3 monthly pts, May-July
1850; with preface, and frontispiece by C. Stanfield); Charles
Dickens edn 1868 (with rev preface and postscript). A suppressed
chapter, Introductory and necessary to be read, is given in
Forster, Life bk 3 ch 8. The 1868 postscript, ‘to be added to all
future editions’, was pbd in All the Year Round 6 June 1868 as A
debt of honour. Harmondsworth 1975, Penguin Eng Lib edn,
later Penguin Classics edn, ed A. Goldman and J. S. Whitley; 1997
Everyman Dickens edn, bound with Pictures from Italy, ed L.
Ormond and F. Schwarzbach; Harmondsworth 1998, Penguin
classics edn, ed P. Ingham.
Bibliographies
Wilkins, W. G. American parodies on American notes. Dickensian 4
1908. See his Dickens and America, 1911.
Fielding, K. J. American notes and some English reviewers. MLR 59
1964.
Bracher, P. The Lea and Blanchard edition of Dickens’s American
notes, 1842. PBSA 63 1969.
Bracher, P. The New York Herald and American notes. Dickens Stud
5 1969.
Bracher, P. The early American editions of American notes: their
priority and circulation. PBSA 69 1975.
Reviews
Athenaeum 22, 29 Oct 1842; Examiner 22–9 Oct 1842; Literary
Gazette 22 Oct 1842; Mirror 28 Oct 1842; [Payne, G. P.]
Ainsworth’s Mag Nov 1842; Dublin Monthly Mag Nov 1842;
Fraser’s Mag Nov 1842; Monthly Rev Nov 1842; [Hood, T.] NMM
Nov 1842; Tait’s Edinburgh Mag Nov 1842; [Chapman, M.]
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