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Author Wilkie Collins
Genres Prose: Leading Article i
Prose: Serial Fiction i
Subjects Fraud; Forgery; Deception; Betrayal—Fiction
Health; Diseases; Personal Injuries; Hygiene; Cleanliness—Fiction
Literature; Writing; Authorship; Reading; Books; Poetry; Storytelling; Letter Writing
London (England)—Description and Travel
Medical care; Nursing; Hospitals; Hospital Care; Surgery; Medicine; Physicians
Psychology; Psychiatry; Mental Health; Mind-Body Relations (Metaphysics)
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Commons and King

26/5/1860

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Author Eliza Lynn Linton
Genres Prose: Digest; Review i
Prose: History i
Subjects Great Britain—History
Great Britain—Politics and Government
Monarchy
Religion; Religion and Culture
Religion—Christianity—Catholic Church
Religion—Christianity—Church of England
Religion—Christianity—Protestantism; Dissenters, Religious
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May

26/5/1860

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Genre Poetry: Lyric i
Subjects Nature; Nature (Aesthetics); Nature in Literature; Landscapes
Weather; Meteorology; Climate; Seasons
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Author Charles Dickens
Genres Cross-genre i
Prose: Essay i
Prose: Travel-writing i
Subjects Animals; Domestic Animals; Pets; Working Animals; Birds; Insects
Great Britain—Social Life and Customs
London (England)—Description and Travel
Travel; Tourism; Hotels; Resorts; Seaside Resorts—Fiction; Passports;
Urbanization; Urban Life and Landscapes
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Retitled 'Shy Neighbourhoods' in collected editions of the series

With the opening sentence of the following paper, compare Dickens's reporting of 'The Great International Walking Match' [broadsheet printed at Boston for private circulation] (see appenix A [in the Dent Uniform Edition of Dickens' Journalism, Vol. 4], p. 410. Even during his lifetime, Dickens's passion for walking (although common among Victorian men-of-letters) was perceived as something of an obsession. Forster speaks of 'excesses in walking' encouraged by country life (Book 11, Ch. 3), while John Hollingshead recalls that 'when Dickens lived at Tavistock House [1851–60] he developed a mania for walking long distances which almost assumed the form of a disease. He suffered from Lumbago, and I have always thought that this was brought on by monotonous pedestrianism'. The same source affirms that in the late 1850s Dickens 'would frequently' walk from the Household Words office, to Gadshill: a journey of some thirty miles (My Lifetime, 1895, Book I, pp. 101–102). As well as country walking, Dickens's ubiquity as a 'flâneur' of the London streets remained undiminished in the 1860s. The language 'once pretty familiar to me' which the Uncommercial Traveller speaks while sleep-walking is probably Italian.

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Master and Man

26/5/1860

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Genre Prose: Report i
Subjects Great Britain—Description and Travel
Great Britain—Social Conditions—Nineteenth Century
Work; Work and Family; Occupations; Professions; Wages
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Author Charles Allston Collins
Genre Prose: Essay i
Subjects Architecture; Building; Housing; Property; Landlord and Tenant;
Great Britain—Politics and Government
Great Britain—Social Life and Customs
London (England)—Description and Travel
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26/5/1860

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Genre Advertisement(s) i
Subject Other
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