This timeline roughly lays out major events after the Restoration until the 1960s. There are some events that are not shown here so we will discover and discuss them together along with the major works we read in class.
Charles Dickens launched Household Words in March 1850, and it was soon selling 40,000 copies a week. The journals works covered varying topics of current affairs, as well as exploratory subjects of literature. Many of the stories went in without the authors name.
The recent discovery of authors attachment to their works has been through Dicken's letters.
Dickens' preface sets out his aspirations for Household Words:
Charles Dickens launched Household Words in March 1850, and it was soon selling 40,000 copies a week. The journals works covered varying topics of current affairs, as well as exploratory subjects of literature. Many of the stories went in without the authors name.
The recent discovery of authors attachment to their works has been through Dicken's letters.
Dickens' preface sets out his aspirations for Household Words:
'Disappearances' was a short essay first published by Elizabeth Gaskell in the June 1851 publication of Charles Dicken's journal, Household Words. The essay explored the disappearances of 6 men throughout the nineteenth century and how their stories could have played out differently if the London Detective Police was formed earlier. While Gaskell acknowledges the skills of the new Detective Police, she coherently addresses the concerns she has over the type of change they will constitute in the political sphere, as well as in literature.
The Great Gold Robbery Heist
