- Title
- Charles Dickens and Joseph Parkinson: disentangling composite authorship in All the Year Round
- Creator
- Litvack, Leon; Craig, Hugh
- Relation
- Dickens Quarterly Vol. 35, Issue 4, p. 303-349
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/dqt.2018.0034
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2018
- Description
- The extent of Dickens’s written output is legendary. In his relatively short lifetime he completed fourteen and a half novels, as well as an impressive array of short fiction, travel books, plays, poems, and major and minor works of prose. The complete extent of his published works may never be known, partly on account of the convention of anonymity that dominated early and mid-Victorian publication – especially journalism (see Drew 117–8, 151, 183). The most recent attempt to produce a “Complete listing of Dickens’s known journalism” was undertaken by Michael Slater and John Drew, in the final volume of their Dent Uniform Edition of Dickens’ Journalism (Slater and Drew 436–46). Yet this inventory, featuring 370 items, is only as reliable as the supporting evidence, which comes from a variety of sources, including Dickens’s correspondence, the discovery of manuscripts, and the Office Book for his journal Household Words (Collins, “Dickens on Ghosts”; Brice; and Lohrli). It is rare nowadays for a new piece of journalism by Dickens to be authenticated; yet such breakthroughs are possible, given the right circumstances and effective modes of investigation.
- Subject
- early Victorian publishing; anonymity; authentication; attribution; marginalia
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1404810
- Identifier
- uon:35401
- Identifier
- ISSN:0742-5473
- Language
- eng
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