Results 1 - 20 of 57 Article Index

This article commences with eye-witness accounts of the battles of Magenta and Solferino, as described by Henry T. Spicer in ‘The Track of War’ and ‘The Last of the War’. The article was later issued as a pamphlet by Richard Barrett “Reprinted from ‘All the Year Round’ by Permission of Mr. Charles Dickens” (1860) and is listed in the 2013 catalogue of Jarndyce the antiquarian bookseller as by ‘Spicer, Henry (?)’; this tentative attribution seems justified.

Attribution: Kathleen Tillotson, 'Henry Spicer, Forster, and Dickens' Dickensian 84 (1988), p. 77.

Attribution: Kathleen Tillotson, 'Henry Spicer, Forster, and Dickens', Dickensian, 84 (1988), p. 77. Referred to in CD's letter to Wills of 31 August 1861 (Letters, 9) as 'The First of April'. 

Attribution: Kathleen Tillotson, 'Henry Spicer, Forster, and Dickens', Dickensian, 84 (1988), p. 77. Referred to in Dickens's letter to Wills of 29 January 1862 (see Letters, X, p. 26&nn.): 'As I see in Spicer's article, several cases that I know to be in the same books' that Morley had used, at Dickens's suggestion, for an article called 'The Last of the Sea-Kings', HW, III, p. 134, also concerning pirates, 'just glance back at Morley and see that there is no repetition'. The article appears to have been held back a week to allow this check to happen. The main book consulted was Captain Charles Johnson's General History of the Pirates, 2 vols (1724); Dickens's copy has several extracts on the fly leaf noted in his hand (Stonehouse, Catalogue of the Library of CD&c., p. 66; Letters, Xshi, p. 26n8.).

Attribution: Kathleen Tillotson, 'Henry Spicer, Forster, and Dickens', Dickensian, 84 (1988), p. 77.

Attribution: Kathleen Tillotson, 'Henry Spicer, Forster, and Dickens', Dickensian, 84 (1988), p. 77.

A version of the story, pace Kathleen Tillotson, was performed at Drury Lane from 26 December 1878, under the title His Novice, A Trifle in One Act. The article was never collected. See Tillotson's 'Henry Spicer, Forster, and Dickens', Dickensian, 84 (1988), p. 73 & n.

Attribution: Kathleen Tillotson, 'Henry Spicer, Forster, and Dickens', Dickensian, 84 (1988), p. 77. Article reprinted in Spicer's Bound to Please (2 vols, 1867).

Serial reprinted in Harper's Weekly in February 1864 and in a single volume, together with 'Cousin Cis', later that Spring; reviewed by Lena Eden in Athenaeum, no. 1907 (May 14,1864), p. 675.

Chapters 3-4 (of 13). Serial reprinted in Harper's Weekly during February 1864, and in a single volume, together with 'Cousin Cis' later that Spring; reviewed by Lena Eden in Athenaeum no. 1907 (May 14,1864), p. 675.

Attribution: Kathleen Tillotson, 'Henry Spicer, Forster, and Dickens', Dickensian, 84 (1988), p. 77. Article reprinted in Bound to Please (2 vols, 1867).

Serial reprinted in Harper's Weekly (February 1864) and in a single volume, together with 'Cousin Cis', later that Spring; reviewed by Lena Eden in Athenaeum, no. 1907 (May 14,1864), p. 675. 

Chapters 7-8 (of 13). Serial reprinted in Harper's Weekly during February 1864, and in a single volume, together with 'Cousin Cis' later that Spring; reviewed by Lena Eden in Athenaeum no. 1907 (May 14,1864), p. 675.

Chapters 9-10 (of 13). Serial reprinted in Harper's Weekly during Feb. 1864, and in a single volume, together with 'Cousin Cis' later that Spring; reviewed by Lena Eden in Athenaeum no. 1907 (May 14,1864), p. 675.

Chapter 12 (of 13). Serial reprinted in Harper's Weekly during February 1864, and in a single volume, together with 'Cousin Cis' later that Spring; reviewed by Lena Eden in Athenaeum no. 1907 (May 14,1864), p. 675.

Attribution: Kathleen Tillotson, 'Henry Spicer, Forster, and Dickens' Dickensian 84 (1988), p. 77. Article repr. in Brought to Book 2 vols (London, 1870).

Attribution: Kathleen Tillotson, 'Henry Spicer, Forster, and Dickens', Dickensian, 84 (1988), p. 77. Article repr. in Brought to Book, 2 vols (London, 1870).