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Household Words: A Weekly Journal

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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.

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17 September 2016.

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20 May 2023.