Household Words: A Weekly Journal
Short Fiction Titles
- The Betrothed Children in vol. 10, issue 235 (1854), pp. 124-129
- A Christmas Tree in vol. 2, issue 39 (1850), pp. 289-295
- An Executor in vol. 19, issue 479 (1859), pp. 617-620
- Gabriel’s Marriage, Part 1 in vol. 7, issue 160 (1853), pp. 149-157
- Gabriel’s Marriage, Part 2 in vol. 7, issue 161 (1853), pp. 181-190
- The Holly-Tree Inn, Part 1: The Guest in vol. 12, Extra Christmas issue (1855), pp. 1-9
- The Holly-Tree Inn, Part 2: The Ostler in vol. 12, Extra Christmas issue (1855), pp. 9-18
- The Holly-Tree Inn, Part 3: The Boots in vol. 12, Extra Christmas issue (1855), pp. 18-22
- The Holly-Tree Inn, Part 4: The Landlord in vol. 12, Extra Christmas issue (1855), pp. 22-30
- The Holly-Tree Inn, Part 5: The Barmaid in vol. 12, Extra Christmas issue (1855), pp. 30-31
- The Holly-Tree Inn, Part 6: The Poor Pensioner in vol. 12, Extra Christmas issue (1855), pp. 31-35
- The Holly-Tree Inn, Part 7: The Bill in vol. 12, Extra Christmas issue (1855), pp. 35-36
- A House to Let, Part 1: Over the Way in vol. 18 (1858), pp. 1-6 [Draft]
- A House to Let, Part 2: The Manchester Marriage in vol. 18 (1858), pp. 6-18 [Draft]
- A House to Let, Part 3: Going into Society in vol. 18 (1858), pp. 18-23 [Draft]
- A House to Let, Part 4: Three Evenings in the House in vol. 18 (1858), pp. 23-26 [Draft]
- A House to Let, Part 5: Trottle’s Report in vol. 18 (1858), pp. 26-32 [Draft]
- A House to Let, Part 6: Let at Last in vol. 18 (1858), pp. 32-36 [Draft]
- Lizzie Leigh, Part 1 in vol. 1, issue 1 (1850), pp. 2-6
- Lizzie Leigh, Part 2 in vol. 1, issue 2 (1850), pp. 32-35
- Lizzie Leigh, Part 3 in vol. 1, issue 3 (1850), pp. 60-65
- The Marsh Fog and the Sea Breeze, Part 1 in vol. 3, issue 55 (1851), pp. 53-58
- The Marsh Fog and the Sea Breeze, Part 2 in vol. 3, issue 56 (1851), pp. 88-94
- My Blind Sister in vol. 13 (1856), pp. 323-461
- Our Society at Cranford in vol. 4 (1851), pp. 265-274 [Draft]
- Paradise Lost in vol. 4, issue 97 (1852), pp. 455-456 [Draft]
- A True Account of an Apparition in vol. 5, issue 105 (1852), pp. 27-31 [Draft]
- WORK! An Anecdote in vol. 1, issue 2 (1850), pp. 35-36
Journal Editors
- Charles Dickens (head editor, 1850-1859)
- Charles Dickens Jr. (also known as Culliford Boz)
- W. H. Wills (sub-editor 1850-1859)
Further Reading
Allingham, Phillip V. “Household Words.” The Victorian Web. 11 July 2004.
Altick, Richard. The English Common Reader: A Social History of the Mass Reading Public, 1800-1900. Ohio: Ohio State University Press, 1998.
Brake, Laurel. “Markets, Genres, Iterations” in Routledge Handbook to Nineteenth-Century Periodicals and Newspapers, New York: Routledge, 2016, 243.
Demoor, Marysa. “Editors and the Eighteenth-Century Press” in Routledge Handbook to Nineteenth-Century Periodicals and Newspapers, New York: Routledge, 2016, 89-101.
“Dickens to Wills, Oct 12, 1852” in The Letters of Charles Dickens, Bloomsbury: The Nonesuch Press, 1938.
“Dickens to Wills Sept, 24 1858” in The Letters of Charles Dickens, Bloomsbury : The Nonesuch Press, 1938.
Drew, John. “Household Words (1850-1859).” Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century Journalism in Great Britain and Ireland. Gen. Eds. Laurel Brake and Marysa Demoor. Gent and London: Academia Press and The British Library, 2009. 29-316.
Drew, John, Hazel Mackenzie, and Ben Winyard. “Household Words, Volume 1: March 30-September 21, 1850.” Dickens Quarterly. Vol. 29 No. 1, 2012, 50-67. ProQuest.
Fitzgerald, Memories of Charles Dickens. Bristol: J. W. Arrowsmith, 1913, 170.
Glancy, Ruth. “Charles Dickens (7 February 1812-9 June 1870).” British Short-Fiction Writers, 1800-1880. Ed. John R. Greenfield. Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol. 159. Detroit: Gale, 1996, 84-105. Gale Dictionary of Literary Biography Complete Online.
Huett, Lorna. “Among the Unknown Public: Household Words, All the Year Round, and the Mass-Market Weekly Periodical in the Mid-Nineteenth Century.” Victorian Periodicals Review. Vol. 38 No. 1, 2005, 70.
Hollingshead, John. “Preface” in Under Bow Bells: A City Book for All Readers, London: Groombridge and Sons, 1860.
“Household Words.” Dickens Journals Online. The University of Buckingham, 2009.
“Household Words; A Weekly Journal Conducted by Charles Dickens.” The Waterloo Directory of English Newspapers and Periodicals, 1800-1900, Series 2. Ed. John S. North. North Waterloo Academic Press, 2003. Online edition.
Lohrli, Anne. Household Words: A Weekly Journal 1850-1859, Conducted by Charles Dickens, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1973.
Palmer, Beth. “Prose” in Routledge Handbook to Nineteenth-Century Periodicals and Newspapers, New York: Routledge, 2016, 138-141.
Phegley, Jennifer. “Family Magazines” in Routledge Handbook to Nineteenth-Century Periodicals and Newspapers, New York: Routledge, 2016, 291-292.
“To Elizabeth Gaskell, Jan 31, 1850; To Mary Hewitt,” in Victorian Samplers: William and Mary Howitt, Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 1952, 152.
Wynne, Deborah. The Sensation Novel and the Victorian Family Magazine, Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2001.
Editors
- Barbie Poole
- Kristina Baird
- Ian McArthur
- Lesli Mortensen
- Alexandra Malouf
Posted
17 September 2016.
Last modified
20 May 2023.