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Author Wilkie Collins
Genres Prose: Leading Article i
Prose: Serial Fiction i
Subjects Ethics; Morals; Moral Development; Moral Education; Philosophy; Values
Family Life; Families; Domestic Relations; Sibling Relations; Kinship; Home;
Gender Identity; Women; Men; Femininity; Masculinity
Literature; Writing; Authorship; Reading; Books; Poetry; Storytelling; Letter Writing
Marriage; Courtship; Love; Sex
Psychology; Psychiatry; Mental Health; Mind-Body Relations (Metaphysics)
Social classes; Class distinctions; Aristocracy (Social Class); Aristocracy (Social Class)—Fiction; Middle Class; Working Class; Servants;
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Genre Prose: Essay i
Subjects Education—Great Britain; Universities and Colleges; Schools
Great Britain—Politics and Government
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Author Thomas Adolphus Trollope
Genres Cross-genre i
Prose: History i
Prose: Serial Fiction i
Subjects Family Life; Families; Domestic Relations; Sibling Relations; Kinship; Home;
Italy—History—General
Italy—Politics and Government
Italy—Social Life and Customs
Marriage; Courtship; Love; Sex
Religion; Religion and Culture
Religion—Christianity—Catholic Church
Religion—Christianity—General
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Attribution: The Letters of Charles Dickens, ed. by Graham Storey, Kathleen Tillotson and others, Pilgrim Edition, 12 vols (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1965-2002), IX, p. 185.

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Author Charles Dickens
Genres Cross-genre i
Prose: Report i
Prose: Short Fiction i
Subjects Family Life; Families; Domestic Relations; Sibling Relations; Kinship; Home;
Great Britain—Commerce
Health; Diseases; Personal Injuries; Hygiene; Cleanliness—Fiction
Literature; Writing; Authorship; Reading; Books; Poetry; Storytelling; Letter Writing
Religion; Religion and Culture
Religion—Christianity—General
Ships; Boats; Shipwrecks; Salvage; Merchant Marine; Sailors; Sailing; Submarines (Ships)
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Split in two and retitled 'His General Line of Business' and 'The Shipwreck' in collected editions of the series 

On 29 December 1859 Dickens travelled to the village of Llanalgo in Anglesey, to inspect the site of the wreck of the 'Royal Charter', a full-rigged iron liner en route to Liverpool from Melbourne with 498 passengers on board and £800,000 in gold specie and bullion. After a good passage as far as Holyhead, the ship met fearsome gales and was driven off course, and sank on the night of 26 October 1859, holed by rocks in Muffa Redwharf bay. Only 39 of those on board survived. Later reports have suggested that the Captain's judgement was impaired by heavy drinking on the leg from Queenstown to Holyhead (see Jack Shaw, 'The Wreck of the "Royal Charter", 1859', The Dickensian, Vol. 3 [1907], pp. 185–86). By the time of Dickens's visit, numerous factual accounts had already appeared in the newspapers, along with graphic depictions of the disaster (e.g. in The Illustrated London News, 29 Oct 1859, p. 413; 5 Nov 1859, pp. 447-48).

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My Boys

28/1/1860

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Author Wilkie Collins
Genres Cross-genre i
Prose: Essay i
Prose: Short Fiction i
Subjects Children; Childhood; Pregnancy; Childbirth; Child Rearing; Adoption; Child Labor
Education—Great Britain; Universities and Colleges; Schools
Family Life; Families; Domestic Relations; Sibling Relations; Kinship; Home;
Sports; Games; Leisure; Pleasure; Hunting; Horse Racing; Gambling; Duelling
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Author (George) Walter Thornbury
Genre Prose: Travel-writing i
Subjects Medical care; Nursing; Hospitals; Hospital Care; Surgery; Medicine; Physicians
Mediterranean Region—Description and Travel
Psychology; Psychiatry; Mental Health; Mind-Body Relations (Metaphysics)
Race; Racism; Ethnicity; Anthropology; Ethnography
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