ILLUSTRATIONS.
| PAGE | |
| Autograph of Charles Dickens | [Fly leaf] |
| Charles Dickens, æt. 47. From the portrait painted for the author in 1859 by W. P. Frith, R.A. Engraved by Robert Graves, A.R.A. | [Frontispiece] |
| Charles Dickens, his Wife, and her Sister. Drawn by Daniel Maclise R.A. in 1842. Engraved by C. H. Jeens | [48] |
| Sketch of the Villa Bagnerello (Albaro), by Angus Fletcher | [121] |
| Drawing of the Palazzo Peschiere (Genoa), by Mr. Batson | [141] |
| At 58, Lincoln's-inn-fields, Monday the 2nd of December, 1844. From a drawing by Daniel Maclise, R.A. Engraved by C. H. Jeens | [174] |
| Rosemont, Lausanne. From a drawing by the Hon. Mrs. Watson | [229] |
| M. Barthelémy's card | [325] |
| Seventeen "fancies" for Mr. Dombey. Designed by H. K. Browne | [345] |
| Twelve more similar fancies. From the design of the same artist | [346] |
| Charles Dickens to George Cruikshank. Facsimile of a letter written in 1838, concerning the later illustrations to Oliver Twist | [349]-[50] |
TABLE OF CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I. 1842. | |
| Pages 21-39. | |
| American Notes. Æt. 30. | |
| PAGE | |
| Return from America | [21] |
| Longfellow in England | [22] |
| At Broadstairs | [23] |
| Preparing Notes | [23] |
| Fancy for opening of Chuzzlewit | [24] |
| Attractions at Margate | [25] |
| Being, not always Believing | [26] |
| Burlesque of classic tragedy | [26] |
| A smart man and forged letter | [26] |
| A proposed dedication | [27] |
| Authorship and sea bathing | [28] |
| Easy-living rich and patient poor | [28] |
| Coming to the end | [29] |
| Rejected motto for Notes | [30] |
| Home of the Every Day Book | [31] |
| Scene at a funeral | [32] |
| An introductory chapter suppressed | [33] |
| Chapter first printed | [33]-[37] |
| Jeffrey's opinion of the Notes | [38] |
| Later page anticipated | [38] |
| Experience of America in 1868 | [38] |
CHAPTER II. 1843. | |
| Pages 40-62. | |
| First Year of Martin Chuzzlewit. Æt. 31. | |
| A sunset at Land's-end | [40] |
| A holiday described by C. D. | [41] |
| The same described by Maclise | [42] |
| A landscape and a portrait | [43] |
| Names first given to Chuzzlewit | [44] |
| Origin of the novel | [45] |
| Prologue to a play | [45] |
| On a tragedy by Browning | [46] |
| George Eliot's first book | [47] |
| Accompaniments of work | [47] |
| Miss Georgina Hogarth | [48] |
| Three portraits | [49] |
| A public benefactor | [50] |
| Controversy on Notes | [50] |
| Original of Mrs. Gamp | [51] |
| What he will do with her | [51] |
| John Black | [53] |
| Macready and America | [53] |
| Apprehended disservice | [54] |
| Exertions for Elton family | [55] |
| Seaside life in ordinary | [55] |
| Public speeches | [56] |
| Ragged schools and results | [57] |
| Unitarianism | [59] |
| Return to Church of England | [59] |
| Language of his Will | [59] |
| Christmas Carol | [60] |
| Birth of third son | [61] |
| Amusing letter | [61] |
CHAPTER III. 1843-1844. | |
| Pages 63-92. | |
| Chuzzlewit Disappointments and Christmas Carol. Æt. 31-32. | |
| Falling-off in Chuzzlewit sale | [63] |
| Publishers and authors | [64] |
| Premature fears | [65] |
| Resolve to change his publishers | [66] |
| Proposal to his printers | [66] |
| Desire to travel again | [67] |
| Ways and means | [68] |
| Objections to the scheme | [69] |
| Confidence in himself | [70] |
| Want of confidence in others | [70] |
| Bent on his plan | [71] |
| Turning point of his career | [72] |
| Grounds for course taken | [73] |
| On Martin Chuzzlewit | [74] |
| American portions | [75] |
| The book's special superiority | [76] |
| News from America | [76] |
| American consolations | [77] |
| Why no Pecksniffs in France | [78] |
| Why Tartuffes in England | [78] |
| A favourite scene of Thackeray's | [79] |
| Process of creation in a novel | [80] |
| Intended motto for story | [81] |
| Leading characters | [82] |
| A superb masterpiece | [83] |
| Triumph of humorous art | [84] |
| Publication of Christmas Carol | [84] |
| Unrealized hopes | [85] |
| Results of Carol sale | [86] |
| Renewed negotiations with printers | [87] |
| Agreement with Bradbury and Evans | [88] |
| Letters about the Carol | [89] |
| Spirit of the book | [90] |
| Something better than literature | [91] |
CHAPTER IV. 1844. | |
| Pages 93-110. | |
| Year of Departure for Italy. Æt. 32. | |
| Gore-house friends | [93] |
| Sensitive for his calling | [94] |
| A troublesome cheque | [95] |
| Education speeches | [95] |
| Sufferings from stage-adaptations | [96] |
| Wrongs from piracy | [96] |
| Proceedings in Chancery | [97] |
| A pirate's plea | [97] |
| Result of Chancery experience | [99] |
| Piracy preferred | [99] |
| Reliefs to work | [100] |
| The tempted and tempter | [101] |
| Favourite bit of humour | [102] |
| Criticized without humour | [102] |
| Taine on Dickens | [102] |
| Macready in New Orleans | [103] |
| Society in England | [104] |
| Writing in the Chronicle | [104] |
| Conference with its new editor | [104] |
| Preparations for departure | [105] |
| In temporary quarters | [106] |
| Begging-letter case | [106] |
| The farewell dinner-party | [107] |
| "Evenings of a Working-man" | [108] |
| Greenwich dinner | [109] |
| J. M. W. Turner and Carlyle | [110] |
CHAPTER V. 1844. | |
| Pages 111-138. | |
| Idleness at Albaro: Villa Bagnerello. Æt. 32. | |
| The travel to Italy | [111] |
| A bit of character | [112] |
| French thrown away | [112] |
| The Albaro villa | [113] |
| First experiences | [114] |
| Cloudy weather | [115] |
| Sunsets and scenery | [116] |
| Address to Maclise | [116] |
| The Mediterranean | [117] |
| Colours of sky and sea | [117] |
| Warning to Maclise | [118] |
| Perishing frescoes | [118] |
| French Consul at Genoa | [119] |
| Rooms in villa described | [120] |
| Surrounding scenery | [121] |
| Church-ruin on the rocks | [121] |
| Angus Fletcher's sketch | [121] |
| Work in abeyance | [122] |
| Learning Italian | [122] |
| Domestic news | [123] |
| His English servants | [123] |
| English residents | [124] |
| Genoa the superb | [125] |
| Church splendours and tinsel | [126] |
| Theatres | [126] |
| Italian plays | [127] |
| Dumas' Kean | [127] |
| Religious houses | [128] |
| Sunday promenade | [128] |
| Winter residence chosen | [129] |
| A lucky arrival | [129] |
| Dinner at French Consul's | [130] |
| Verses in C. D.'s honour | [130] |
| Others in Prince Joinville's | [131] |
| Rumours of war with England | [131] |
| A Marquis's reception | [132] |
| Flight and tumble | [133] |
| Quiet enjoyments | [134] |
| English visitors and news | [135] |
| Talk with Lord Robertson | [135] |
| A suggestion for Jerrold | [136] |
| Visit of Frederick Dickens | [136] |
| An inn on the Alps | [136] |
| Dangers of sea-bathing | [137] |
| A change beginning | [138] |
CHAPTER VI. 1844. | |
| Pages 139-162. | |
| Work in Genoa: Palazzo Peschiere. Æt. 32. | |
| Palace of the Fish-ponds | [139] |
| Rooms and frescoes | [140] |
| View over the city | [141] |
| Dancing and praying | [142] |
| Peschiere garden | [142] |
| Trying to write | [143] |
| A difficulty settled | [143] |
| Craving for streets | [144] |
| Design for his book | [144] |
| Governor's levee | [144] |
| Absence of the poet | [145] |
| Subject he is working at | [145] |
| C. D.'s politics | [146] |
| Choice of a hero | [147] |
| Master-passion | [147] |
| Religious sentiment | [147] |
| A dream | [148] |
| Dialogue in a vision | [149] |
| "What is the True religion?" | [149] |
| Fragments of reality in a vision | [149] |
| Trying regions of thought | [150] |
| Reverence for Doctor Arnold | [150] |
| First part of book finished | [151] |
| Anticipation of its close | [151] |
| Differences from published tale | [152] |
| First outline of the Chimes | [152]-[156] |
| Liking for the subject | [156] |
| What the writing cost him | [156] |
| Realities of fictitious sorrow | [157] |
| Wild mountain weather | [157] |
| Banquet at the Whistle | [158] |
| Startling news | [158] |
| Coming to London | [159] |
| Secret of the visit | [160] |
| Eager to try effect of story | [160] |
| Plans a reading at my rooms | [160] |
| The tale finished | [161] |
| Proposed travel | [161] |
| Party for the Reading | [162] |
CHAPTER VII. 1844. | |
| Pages 163-178. | |
| Italian Travel. Æt. 32. | |
| Cities and people | [163] |
| Venice | [164] |
| Rapture of enjoyment | [165] |
| Aboard the city | [165] |
| What he saw and felt | [165] |
| Solitary thoughts | [166] |
| At Lodi | [166] |
| About paintings and engravings | [167] |
| Titian and Tintoretto | [168] |
| Conventionalities | [169] |
| Monks and painters | [169] |
| The inns | [170] |
| Compensation for discomfort | [170] |
| Brave C of his Pictures | [171] |
| Louis Roche of Avignon | [171] |
| Dinner at the Peschiere | [172] |
| Custom-house officers | [173] |
| At Milan and Strasburg | [173] |
| Passing the Simplon | [174] |
| In London | [174] |
| A Reading in Lincoln's-inn-fields | [174] |
| Persons present | [175] |
| Success of the visit | [175] |
| In Paris with Macready | [176] |
| Origin of our private play | [176] |
| A recognition at Marseilles | [177] |
| Friendly Americans | [177] |
| On board for Genoa | [177] |
| Information for travellers | [178] |
CHAPTER VIII. 1845. | |
| Pages 179-200. | |
| Last Months in Italy. Æt. 33. | |
| Birthday gift for eldest son | [179] |
| Suspicious "Characters" | [180] |
| Jesuit interferences | [180] |
| Birth of 1845 | [180] |
| Travel southward | [181] |
| Carrara and Pisa | [181] |
| A wild journey | [182] |
| Birds of prey | [183] |
| A beggar and his staff | [183] |
| "My lord" loses temper | [184] |
| And has the worst of it | [184] |
| At Rome | [184] |
| The Campagna | [185] |
| Bay of Naples | [185] |
| Filth of Naples and Fondi | [186] |
| The Lazzaroni | [186] |
| False picturesque | [187] |
| Sad English news | [187] |
| True friends in calamity | [188] |
| At Florence | [188] |
| Wayside memorials and Landor's villa | [189] |
| Death of Bobus Smith | [190] |
| At Lord Holland's | [190] |
| Lord Palmerston's brother | [190] |
| Again at the Peschiere | [190] |
| To publish or not? | [191] |
| Thoughts of home | [192] |
| American friends | [192] |
| Deaths among English residents | [193] |
| Scarlet breeches out of place | [193] |
| Angus Fletcher | [193] |
| Complaint of a meek footman | [194] |
| Recalling Lady Holland | [194] |
| A touch of Portsmouth | [195] |
| Plans for meeting | [196] |
| Last letter from Genoa | [196] |
| Closing excitements and troubles | [196] |
| Italians hard at work | [197] |
| Returning by Switzerland | [197] |
| Passage of the St. Gothard | [198] |
| Splendours of Swiss scenery | [198] |
| Dangers of it | [199] |
| What is left behind the Alps | [199] |
| A week in Flanders | [200] |
CHAPTER IX. 1845-1846. | |
| Pages 201-221. | |
| Again in England. Æt. 33-34. | |
| Old hopes revived | [201] |
| Notions for a periodical | [201] |
| Proposed prospectus | [202] |
| Chances for and against it | [203] |
| Swept away by larger venture | [203] |
| Christmas book of 1845 | [204] |
| D'Orsay and the courier | [204] |
| Another passage of Autobiography | [204] |
| More of the story of early years | [205] |
| Wish to try the stage | [205] |
| Applies to manager of Covent Garden | [205] |
| Sister Fanny in the secret | [206] |
| Stage studies and rehearsings | [206] |
| Strange news for Macready | [207] |
| Requisites of author and actor | [208] |
| Play chosen for private performance | [209] |
| Fanny Kelly and her theatre | [209] |
| Every Man in his Humour | [209] |
| The company of actors | [210] |
| Enjoying a character | [210] |
| Troubles of management | [210] |
| First and second performances | [211] |
| Of the acting | [211] |
| C. D. as performer | [212] |
| C. D. as manager | [212] |
| Two human mysteries | [213] |
| The mysteries explained | [213] |
| Training for the stage | [213] |
| At Broadstairs | [214] |
| Ramsgate entertainments | [214] |
| Birth of fourth son | [215] |
| Second raven's death | [215] |
| Intended daily paper | [215] |
| Disturbing engagements | [216] |
| Old ways interrupted | [216] |
| My appeal against the enterprise | [217] |
| Reply and issue | [217] |
| Interruption and renewal | [218] |
| The beginning and the end | [218] |
| Forming new resolve | [219] |
| Back to old scenes | [219] |
| Editorship ceased | [219] |
| Going to Switzerland | [220] |
| A happy saying | [221] |
| Leaves England | [221] |
CHAPTER X. 1846. | |
| Pages 222-243. | |
| A Home in Switzerland. Æt. 34. | |
| On the Rhine | [222] |
| German readers of Dickens | [223] |
| Travelling Englishmen | [223] |
| A hoaxing-match | [224] |
| House-hunting | [224] |
| Tempted by a mansion | [225] |
| Chooses a cottage | [225] |
| Earliest impressions | [226] |
| Lausanne described | [227] |
| Views from his farm | [228] |
| Under his windows | [228] |
| A sketch of Rosemont | [229] |
| Design as to work | [230] |
| The English colony | [231] |
| Unaccommodating carriage | [232] |
| A death in the lake | [232] |
| Boatman's narrative | [233] |
| The Theatre | [233] |
| The Prison | [234] |
| The Blind Institution | [235] |
| Interesting cases | [235]-[240] |
| Beginning work | [240] |
| First slip of New Novel | [241] |
| Sortes Shandyanæ | [242] |
| The Christmas tale | [242] |
CHAPTER XI. 1846. | |
| Pages 244-260. | |
| Swiss People and Scenery. Æt. 34. | |
| The mountains and lake | [244] |
| The people and their manners | [245] |
| A country fête | [246] |
| Family sketch | [246] |
| Rifle-shooting | [247] |
| A marriage on the farm | [248] |
| Gunpowder festivities | [248] |
| Bride and mother | [248] |
| First number of Dombey | [249] |
| Christmas book | [249] |
| General idea for new story | [250] |
| Hints for illustration of it | [250] |
| Haldimands and Cerjats | [251] |
| Visit of Henry Hallam | [251] |
| Local news | [252] |
| Sight-seers from England | [252] |
| Trip to Chamounix | [253] |
| Mule-travelling | [253] |
| Mont Blanc range | [254] |
| Mer de Glace | [255] |
| Tête Noire pass | [255] |
| Help in an accident | [256] |
| English, French, and Prussian | [256] |
| Second number of Dombey | [257] |
| Castle of Chillon described | [257] |
| Honour to New Constitution | [258] |
| Political celebration | [258] |
| Malcontents | [259] |
| Good conduct of the people | [259] |
| Protestant and Catholic cantons | [260] |
| A timely word on Ireland | [260] |
CHAPTER XII. 1846. | |
| Pages 261-276. | |
| Sketches Chiefly Personal. Æt. 34. | |
| Home politics | [261] |
| The Whigs and Peel | [261] |
| Belief in emigration schemes | [262] |
| Mark Lemon | [263] |
| An incident of character | [263] |
| Hood's Tylney Hall | [264] |
| Trait of the Duke of Wellington | [264] |
| Mr. Watson of Rockingham | [264] |
| A recollection of reporting days | [265] |
| Returns to Dombey | [265] |
| Two English travellers | [266] |
| Party among the hills | [267] |
| A Smollett and Fielding hero | [268] |
| Milksop youths | [268] |
| Ogre and Lambs | [268] |
| Sir Joseph and his family | [269] |
| Lord Vernon | [270] |
| Passion for rifle-shooting | [270] |
| A wonderful carriage | [270] |
| The Ladies Taylor | [271] |
| Proposed Reading of first Dombey | [272] |
| A sketch from life | [272] |
| Two sisters and their books | [272] |
| Trip to Great St. Bernard | [273] |
| Ascent of the mountain | [274] |
| The Convent | [274] |
| Scene at the mountain top | [274] |
| Bodies found in the snow | [275] |
| The holy fathers | [275] |
| A tavern all but sign | [276] |
| The monk and Pickwick | [276] |
CHAPTER XIII. 1846. | |
| Pages 277-294. | |
| Literary Labour at Lausanne. Æt. 34. | |
| A picture completed | [277] |
| Great present want | [277] |
| Daily life | [278] |
| Imaginative needs | [278] |
| Self-judgments | [279] |
| The Now and the Hereafter | [279] |
| Fancies for Christmas books | [280] |
| Second number of Dombey | [280] |
| A personal revelation | [281] |
| Craving for streets | [281] |
| Food for fancy | [282] |
| Second Dombey done | [282] |
| Curious wants of the mind | [283] |
| Success of the Reading | [283] |
| First thought of Public Readings | [284] |
| Two stories in hand | [285] |
| Unexpected difficulties | [286] |
| Work under sensitive conditions | [286] |
| Alarm for Dombey | [287] |
| Doubts and misgivings | [287] |
| Change of scene to be tried | [287] |
| At Genoa | [288] |
| Disquietudes of authorship | [288] |
| Wanting counsel | [289] |
| At the worst | [289] |
| Report of Genoa | [290] |
| A new social experience | [290] |
| Feminine eccentricities | [291] |
| A ladies' dinner | [291] |
| Elephant-quellers | [292] |
| "Like a Manchester cotton mill" | [292] |
| Again at Rosemont | [293] |
| Visit of the Talfourds | [293] |
| Lodging his friends | [294] |
| Intentions and hope | [294] |
CHAPTER XIV. 1846. | |
| Pages 295-315. | |
| Revolution at Geneva. Christmas Book and Last Days in Switzerland. Æt. 34. | |
| An arrival of manuscript | [295] |
| A title | [295] |
| Large sale of Dombey | [296] |
| Again at Geneva | [296] |
| Rising against the Jesuits | [297] |
| Back to Lausanne | [297] |
| The fight in Geneva | [298] |
| Rifle against cannon | [299] |
| True objection to Roman-Catholicism | [299] |
| Genevese "aristocracy" | [299] |
| A lesson | [300] |
| Traces left by revolution | [300] |
| Abettors of revolution | [301] |
| Where the shoe pinches | [301] |
| Daily News' changes | [302] |
| My surrender of editorship | [302] |
| Thoughts for the future | [303] |
| Letters about Battle of Life | [303] |
| Jeffrey's opinion | [303] |
| Sketch of story | [304] |
| A difficulty in plot | [305] |
| Old characteristics | [305] |
| His own comments | [306] |
| Reply to criticism | [307] |
| Stanfield illustrations | [307] |
| Doubts of third part | [308] |
| Strengthening the close | [308] |
| Objections invited | [309] |
| Tendency to blank verse | [309] |
| Grave mistake by Leech | [310] |
| How dealt with by C. D. | [310] |
| First impulse | [311] |
| Kindly afterthought | [311] |
| Lord Gobden and free trade | [312] |
| Needs while at work | [312] |
| Pleasures of autumn | [313] |
| Striking tents | [314] |
| Sadness of leave-taking | [314] |
| Travelling to Paris | [314] |
| At Paris | [315] |
CHAPTER XV. 1846-1847. | |
| Pages 316-333. | |
| Three Months in Paris. Æt. 34-35. | |
| A greeting from Lord Brougham | [316] |
| French Sunday | [317] |
| A house taken | [317] |
| Absurdity of the abode | [318] |
| Its former tenant | [319] |
| Sister Fanny's illness | [319] |
| Opinion of Elliotson | [320] |
| The king of the barricades | [320] |
| Unhealthy symptoms | [321] |
| Incident in the streets | [321] |
| The Parisian population | [322] |
| Americans and French | [322] |
| Unsettlement of plans | [323] |
| Eldest son's education | [323] |
| A true friend | [323] |
| Christmas tale on the stage | [323] |
| An alarming neighbour | [325] |
| Startling blue-devils | [326] |
| Approach to cannibalism | [326] |
| In London | [326] |
| Cheap edition of works | [326] |
| Suppressed dedication | [326] |
| Return to Paris | [326] |
| Begging-letter writers | [327] |
| Friendly services | [327] |
| Imaginary dialogue | [328] |
| A Boulogne reception | [328] |
| Cautions to a traveller | [329] |
| Citizen Dickens | [330] |
| Sight-seeing | [330] |
| At theatres | [330] |
| Visits to famous Frenchmen | [331] |
| Evening with Victor Hugo | [331] |
| Adventure with a coachman | [332] |
| Bibliothèque Royale | [333] |
| Premonitory symptoms | [333] |
| In London | [334] |
| A party at Gore-house | [334] |
| Illness of eldest son | [335] |
| Snuff-shop readings | [336] |
| Old charwoman's compliment | [336] |
CHAPTER XVI. 1846-1848. | |
| Pages 337-367. | |
| Dombey and Son. Æt. 34-36. | |
| Drift of the tale | [337] |
| Why undervalued | [338] |
| Mistakes of critics | [338] |
| Adherence to first design | [338] |
| Plan for Paul and his sister | [339] |
| For Dombey and his daughter | [339] |
| Proposed course of the story | [340] |
| "The stock of the soup" | [340] |
| Walter Gay and his fate | [341] |
| Decided favourably | [341] |
| Six pages too much | [342] |
| Omissions objected to | [342] |
| New chapter written | [343] |
| Portions sacrificed | [343] |
| Anxiety for the face of his hero | [344] |
| A suggested type of city-gentleman | [344] |
| Artist-fancies for Mr. Dombey | [345]-[6] |
| Dickens and his illustrators | [347] |
| A silly story repeated | [347] |
| Why noticed again | [348] |
| Facsimile of letter to Cruikshank | [349]-[50] |
| Dickens's words at the time | [349] |
| Cruikshank's thirty-four years after | [350] |
| A masterpiece of Dickens's writing | [351] |
| Picture of him at work | [352] |
| An experience of Ben Jonson's | [352] |
| How objections are taken | [352] |
| Shall Paul's life be prolonged? | [353] |
| A Reading of the second number | [353] |
| A number to be added to Paul's life | [354] |
| Failure of an illustration | [354] |
| What it should have been | [355] |
| The Mrs. Pipchin of his childhood | [355] |
| First thought of his Autobiography | [356] |
| Opening his fourth number | [356] |
| At Doctor Blimber's | [357] |
| Paul's school life | [357] |
| Paul and Florence | [357] |
| Jeffrey's forecast of the tale | [358] |
| Beginning his fifth number | [359] |
| What he will do with it | [359] |
| A damper to the spirits | [359] |
| Close of Paul's life | [360] |
| Jeffrey on Paul's death | [361] |
| Thoughts for Edith | [362] |
| Florence and Little Nell | [362] |
| Judgments and comparisons | [363] |
| Edith's first destiny | [363] |
| Doubts suggested | [364] |
| An important change | [364] |
| Diogenes remembered | [365] |
| Other characters | [365] |
| Blimber establishment | [366] |
| Supposed originals | [366] |
| Surmises entirely wrong | [367] |
CHAPTER XVII. 1847-1852. | |
| Pages 368-402. | |
| Splendid Strolling. Æt. 35-40. | |
| Birth of fifth son | [368] |
| Death of Lieut. Sydney Dickens | [368] |
| Proposed benefit for Leigh Hunt | [369] |
| The plays and actors | [370] |
| The manager | [370] |
| Troubles at rehearsals | [371] |
| Pains rewarded | [371] |
| Leigh Hunt's account | [372] |
| Receipts and expenses | [373] |
| Lord Lytton's prologue | [373] |
| Appearance of Mrs. Gamp | [374] |
| Fancy for a jeu d'esprit | [374] |
| Mrs. Gamp at the play | [375] |
| Failure of artists | [375] |
| An unfinished fancy | [375] |
| Mrs. Gamp with the strollers | [376] |
| Alarm of Mrs. Harris | [376] |
| Leigh Hunt and Poole | [377] |
| Ticklish society | [378] |
| Mrs. Gamp's cabman | [378] |
| George Cruikshank | [379] |
| Mr. Wilson the barber | [379] |
| Wig experiences | [380] |
| Fatigues of a powder ball | [380] |
| Manager's moustache and whiskers | [381] |
| Leech, Lemon, and Jerrold | [381]-[2] |
| Mrs. Gamp's dislike of "Dougladge" | [382] |
| Costello, Stone, and Egg | [383] |
| "Only the engine" | [384] |
| Cruikshank's Bottle | [384] |
| Profits of Dombey | [385] |
| Time come for savings | [385] |
| Proposed edition of old novels | [385] |
| Another dropped design | [386] |
| The Praslin tragedy | [386] |
| Penalty for seeing before others | [387] |
| Street-music | [387] |
| Margate theatre and manager | [387] |
| As to Christmas book | [388] |
| Delay found necessary | [389] |
| A literary Kitely | [389] |
| Meetings at Leeds and Glasgow | [390] |
| Book-friends | [391] |
| Sheriff Alison | [391] |
| Hospitable welcome | [391] |
| Scott-monument | [392] |
| Purchase of Shakespeare's house | [392] |
| Scheme to benefit Knowles | [393] |
| Plays rehearsed | [394] |
| Merry Wives chosen | [394] |
| Performances and result | [394] |
| At Knebworth-park | [395] |
| Guild of Literature and Art | [396] |
| Unfortunate omission | [396] |
| The farce that was to be written | [396] |
| The farce that was substituted | [397] |
| Not so Bad as we Seem | [397] |
| Travelling theatre and scenes | [398] |
| Success of the comedy | [398] |
| An incident at Sunderland | [399] |
| Troubles of a manager | [399] |
| Acting under difficulties | [400] |
| Scenery overturned | [401] |
| Effects of fright | [401] |
| Mr. Wilkie Collins | [402] |
CHAPTER XVIII. 1848-1851. | |
| Pages 403-441. | |
| Seaside Holidays. Æt. 36-39. | |
| Louis Philippe dethroned | [403] |
| French missive from C. D. | [404] |
| Aspirations of Citizen Dickens | [404] |
| At Broadstairs | [405] |
| By rail to China | [405] |
| The Junk | [406] |
| Mariners on deck and in cabin | [406] |
| Perplexing questions | [406] |
| A toy-shop on the seas | [407] |
| Type of finality | [407] |
| A contrast | [408] |
| Home questions | [408] |
| Temperance agitations | [409] |
| The temptations to gin-shop | [409] |
| Necessity of dealing with them | [409] |
| Stages anterior to drunkenness | [410] |
| Cruikshank's satire | [410] |
| Realities of his pencil | [411] |
| Its one-sidedness | [411] |
| Dickens on Hogarth | [412] |
| Cause as well as effect | [412] |
| Exit of Gin-lane | [412] |
| Wisdom of the great painter | [413] |
| Late, but never too late | [413] |
| Dickens on designs by Leech | [414] |
| Originality of Leech | [414] |
| Superiority of his method | [415] |
| The requisites for it | [415] |
| Excuses for the rising generation | [416] |
| Intellectual juvenility | [416] |
| A dangerous youth | [417] |
| What Leech will be remembered for | [417] |
| Odd adventures | [418] |
| Pony-chaise accident | [418] |
| Parallel to Squeers | [419] |
| Strenuous idleness | [419] |
| French philosophy | [420] |
| Hint for Mr. Taine | [420] |
| The better for idleness | [421] |
| A favourite spot | [421] |
| At Brighton | [421] |
| With mad folks and doctors | [422] |
| A name for his new book | [422] |
| At Broadstairs | [422] |
| Troubles in his writing | [423] |
| A letter in character | [423] |
| At Bonchurch | [425] |
| The Rev. James White | [425] |
| Mirth and melancholy | [425] |
| Mrs. James White | [426] |
| First impressions of Undercliff | [426] |
| Talfourd made a judge | [427] |
| Dickens's affection for him | [427] |
| Church-school examination | [428] |
| Dinners and pic-nics | [428] |
| The comedian Regnier | [429] |
| When acting is genuine | [429] |
| Doubts as to health | [429] |
| Arrivals and departures | [430] |
| A startling revelation | [431] |
| Effects of Bonchurch climate | [431] |
| Utter prostration | [431] |
| Difficulties of existing there | [432] |
| Distrust of doctors | [433] |
| Other side of picture | [433] |
| What I observed at the time | [434] |
| From the Copperfield MS. | [434] |
| Mr. Browne's sketch of Micawber | [435] |
| Accident to John Leech | [435] |
| Its consequences | [435] |
| Depressing influences | [436] |
| At Broadstairs | [436] |
| Railway travellers | [437] |
| The exhibition year | [438] |
| A Copperfield banquet | [438] |
| C. D. on money values | [439] |
| His leisure reading | [439] |
| A correction for Carlyle | [440] |
| Good criticism | [441] |
| Thoughts of a new book | [441] |
| The old restlessness | [441] |
| Beginning on a Friday | [441] |
CHAPTER XIX. 1848-1850. | |
| Pages 442-456. | |
| Haunted Man and Household Words. Æt. 36-40. | |
| Maturing book for Christmas | [442] |
| Friendly plea for Mr. Macrone | [442] |
| Completion of Christmas story | [443] |
| Dropped motto | [443] |
| The "ghost" and the "bargain" | [444] |
| The Tetterby family | [445] |
| Teachings of the little tale | [445] |
| His own statement of its intention | [446] |
| Forgive that you may forget | [446] |
| Copperfield sales | [447] |
| A letter from Russia | [448] |
| Translation into Russian | [448] |
| Sympathy of Siberia | [448] |
| The Periodical taking form | [449] |
| A design for it described | [449] |
| Original and selected matter | [449] |
| A Shadow for everywhere | [450] |
| Hopes of success | [450] |
| Doubts respecting it | [451] |
| Incompatibility of design | [451] |
| New design chosen | [452] |
| Assistant editor appointed | [453] |
| Titles proposed | [453] |
| Appearance of first number | [454] |
| Earliest contributors | [454] |
| Opinion of Mr. Sala | [454] |
| Child's dream of a star | [455] |
| A fancy derived from childhood | [456] |
CHAPTER XX. 1848-1851. | |
| Pages 457-494. | |
| Last Years in Devonshire Terrace. Æt. 36-39. | |
| Sentiment about places | [457] |
| Confidences | [458] |
| Personal revelations | [458] |
| Early memories | [459] |
| At his sister's sick-bed | [459] |
| Last thoughts | [460] |
| Sister's death | [460] |
| Book to be written in first person | [461] |
| Riding over Salisbury Plain | [461] |
| Visiting scene of a tragedy | [462] |
| First sees Yarmouth | [462] |
| Birth of sixth son | [462] |
| Notion for a character | [463] |
| Choosing a title | [463] |
| "Mag's Diversions" | [464] |
| "Copperfield" chosen | [464] |
| Varieties of it proposed | [465] |
| Title finally determined | [466] |
| Difficulties of opening | [466] |
| Rogers and Benedict | [466] |
| Wit of Fonblanque | [467] |
| Procter and Macready | [467] |
| The Sheridans | [468] |
| Lord Byron's Ada | [469] |
| Dinner to Halévy and Scribe | [469] |
| Brougham and "the Punch people" | [469] |
| The Duke at Vauxhall | [470] |
| Carlyle and Thackeray | [470] |
| Judicious change of a "tag" | [471] |
| A fact for a biographer | [471] |
| Marryat's delight with children | [472] |
| Bulwer Lytton and Monckton Milnes | [472] |
| Lords Nugent and Dudley Stuart | [472]-[3] |
| Kemble, Harness, and Dyce | [473] |
| Mrs. Siddons and John Kemble | [473] |
| Comparison and good distinction | [474] |
| Mazzini and Edinburgh friends | [474] |
| Artist-acquaintance | [475] |
| Visitors at his house | [475] |
| Friends from America | [476] |
| M. Van de Weyer | [476] |
| Ambition to see into heaven | [477] |
| Literature and art in the city | [477] |
| Doubtful compliment | [478] |
| A hint for London citizens | [478] |
| Letter against public executions | [479] |
| American observer in England | [479] |
| Marvels of English manners | [480] |
| A letter from Rockingham | [481] |
| Private theatricals | [481] |
| Major Bentley and General Boxall | [481]-[2] |
| A family scene | [482] |
| Doing too much | [483] |
| Death of Francis Jeffrey | [483] |
| Progress of work | [484] |
| The child-wife | [484] |
| A run to Paris | [484] |
| Banker or proctor | [485] |
| Doubts as to Dora settled | [486] |
| Of Rogers and Landor | [486] |
| A third daughter born | [487] |
| At Great Malvern | [487] |
| Macready's farewell | [488] |
| Experience of a brother author | [488] |
| The Home at Shepherd's-bush | [488] |
| Father's illness | [489] |
| Death of John Dickens | [489] |
| Tribute by his son | [490] |
| Theatrical-fund dinner | [490] |
| Plea for small actors | [491] |
| Remembering the forgotten | [491] |
| Death of his little daughter | [492] |
| Difficult tasks in life | [492] |
| Dora's grave | [493] |
| Advocating sanitary reform | [493] |
| Lord Shaftesbury | [494] |
| Realities of his books to Dickens | [494] |