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Author Percy Hetherington Fitzgerald
Genres Prose: Leading Article i
Prose: Serial Fiction i
Subjects Friendship
Great Britain—Description and Travel
Railroads
Travel; Tourism; Hotels; Resorts; Seaside Resorts—Fiction; Passports;
Violence; Torture; Violence in Literature; Violence—Moral and Ethical Aspects; Violence—Psychological Aspects
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Before the Deluge

13/1/1866

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Genre Prose: Digest; Review i
Subjects Animals; Domestic Animals; Pets; Working Animals; Birds; Insects
Natural Sciences (Astronomy / Botany / Geology / Natural History / Oceanography / Paleontology / Zoology)
Progress; Memory; Commemoration; Nostaliga; Time—Social Aspects; Time—Psychological Aspects; Time perception;
Religion; Religion and Culture
Weather; Meteorology; Climate; Seasons
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This article is based on Louis Figuier, The World before the Deluge (1863, 2nd edn, 1867). 

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Genre Prose: Essay i
Subjects Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of all Nations (1851)
Manufacturing processes; Manufacturing; Factories; Factory Management; Industrial Waste
Progress; Memory; Commemoration; Nostaliga; Time—Social Aspects; Time—Psychological Aspects; Time perception;
Transportation; Horse-Drawn Vehicles; Cab and Omnibus Service; Ballooning
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Genre Poetry: Narrative i
Subjects Beauty, Personal; Grooming; Appearance (Philosophy); Physiognomy
Myth; Legends; Epic Literature; Fables; Allegory; Folklore
Religion; Religion and Culture
Religion—Hinduism
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Genre Prose: Short Fiction i
Subjects Crime; Criminals; Punishment; Capital Punishment; Prisons; Penal Transportation; Penal Colonies
Escapes; Fugitives from Justice—Fiction
Gender Identity; Women; Men; Femininity; Masculinity
Police; Detectives; Mystery and Detective Stories; Mystery; Mystery Fiction; Forensic Sciences
Ships; Boats; Shipwrecks; Salvage; Merchant Marine; Sailors; Sailing; Submarines (Ships)
Travel; Tourism; Hotels; Resorts; Seaside Resorts—Fiction; Passports;
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13/1/1866

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Genre Advertisement(s) i
Subjects Literature; Writing; Authorship; Reading; Books; Poetry; Storytelling; Letter Writing
Newspapers; Periodicals; Journalism
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Advertisement for the Fourteenth Volume of All the Year Round
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13/1/1866

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Genre Advertisement(s) i
Subjects Literature; Writing; Authorship; Reading; Books; Poetry; Storytelling; Letter Writing
Newspapers; Periodicals; Journalism
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Advertisement for the Volume Edition of Our Mutual Friend
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13/1/1866

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Genre Advertisement(s) i
Subjects Literature; Writing; Authorship; Reading; Books; Poetry; Storytelling; Letter Writing
Newspapers; Periodicals; Journalism
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Advertisement for the Extra Christmas Double Number
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Author Percy Hetherington Fitzgerald
Genres Prose: Leading Article i
Prose: Serial Fiction i
Subjects Character; Character Sketches; Caricature
Great Britain—Social Life and Customs
Law; Lawyers; Justice; Courts; Trials
Marriage; Courtship; Love; Sex
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Paradise Revisited

20/1/1866

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Author Henry T. Spicer
Genres Prose: Autobiography; Biography; Memoirs; Obituary; Anecdotes i
Prose: Sketch i
Subjects Food; Cooking; Gastronomy; Alcohol; Bars (Drinking Establishments); Restaurants; Dinners and Dining
Popular Culture; Amusements
Theatre; Performing Arts; Performing; Dance; Playwriting; Circus
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Attribution: Kathleen Tillotson, 'Henry Spicer, Forster, and Dickens' Dickensian 84 (1988), p. 77. Article reprinted in Spicer's Bound to Please 2 vols (1867). According to Letters 11, p. 225n., 'CD ... contributed to, or revised' this article, which is 'an account of taking children to the pantomime.' No reference is provided, though, clearly, the piece has many characteristic Dickensian touches.

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Misery

20/1/1866

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Author Robert Bulwer Lytton
Genre Poetry: Narrative i
Subjects Great Britain—Social Conditions—Nineteenth Century
London (England)—Description and Travel
Poverty; Poor Laws—Great Britain; Workhouses—Great Britain
Religion; Religion and Culture
Religion—Christianity—General
Urbanization; Urban Life and Landscapes
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Attribution: reprinted in Robert Lord Lytton, Poems, Historical and Characteristic (London: Chapman and Hall, 1877).

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Author Andrew Halliday
Genre Prose: Essay i
Subjects Food; Cooking; Gastronomy; Alcohol; Bars (Drinking Establishments); Restaurants; Dinners and Dining
Great Britain—Politics and Government
Great Britain—Social Life and Customs
Money; Finance; Banking; Investments; Taxation; Insurance; Debt; Inheritance and Succession
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Form-Sickness

20/1/1866

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Author George Augustus Sala
Genre Prose: Essay i
Subjects Emigration; Immigration; Expatriation
Progress; Memory; Commemoration; Nostaliga; Time—Social Aspects; Time—Psychological Aspects; Time perception;
Travel; Tourism; Hotels; Resorts; Seaside Resorts—Fiction; Passports;
United States—Description and Travel
United States—Social Life and Customs
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Genres Cross-genre i
Prose: Letters; Correspondence i
Prose: Short Fiction i
Subjects Family Life; Families; Domestic Relations; Sibling Relations; Kinship; Home;
Great Britain—History
Great Britain—Social Life and Customs
Progress; Memory; Commemoration; Nostaliga; Time—Social Aspects; Time—Psychological Aspects; Time perception;
Science; Science—History; Technology; Technological innovations; Discoveries in Science
Work; Work and Family; Occupations; Professions; Wages
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20/1/1866

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Genre Advertisement(s) i
Subjects Literature; Writing; Authorship; Reading; Books; Poetry; Storytelling; Letter Writing
Newspapers; Periodicals; Journalism
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1) Advertisement for the Extra Christmas Number of All the Year Round.
2) Advertisement for the volume publication of Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens.
3) Advertisement for the Fourteenth Volume of All the Year Round.

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Author Percy Hetherington Fitzgerald
Genres Prose: Leading Article i
Prose: Serial Fiction i
Subjects Character; Character Sketches; Caricature
Family Life; Families; Domestic Relations; Sibling Relations; Kinship; Home;
Great Britain—Social Life and Customs
Religion; Religion and Culture
Religion—Christianity—Church of England
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Author Edward Backhouse Eastwick
Genre Prose: Travel-writing i
Subjects Economics
Latin America—Description and Travel
Latin America—Politics and Government
Latin America—Social Life and Customs
National Characteristics; Nationalism
Race; Racism; Ethnicity; Anthropology; Ethnography
Sports; Games; Leisure; Pleasure; Hunting; Horse Racing; Gambling; Duelling
Travel; Tourism; Hotels; Resorts; Seaside Resorts—Fiction; Passports;
Work; Work and Family; Occupations; Professions; Wages
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Part of a series of articles on South American by Eastwick published in All the Year Round. See also 'To Venezuela: Sailing on a Friday, All the Year Round, XIV, No. 341, 'At la Guaira', All the Year Round, XIV, No. 343, 'At Caracas', All the Year Round, XIV, No. 344, 'To Puerto Cabello', All the Year Round, XIV, No. 349, 'Caracas to Valencia', All the Year Round, XV, No. 350, 'Valencia Sight-Seeing', All the Year Round, XV, No. 359, 'Ermenia', All the Year Round, XV, No. 366, 'Major Milligan's Mistake', All the Year Round, XIX, No. 461 and 'Carabobo', All the Year Round, XIX, No. 466.

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Author Robert Bulwer Lytton
Genre Poetry: Narrative i
Subjects Civilization—Classical
Death; Grief; Mourning; Mourning Customs in Literature; Funeral Rites and Ceremonies; Life Cycle, Human; Old Age; Mortality
Ethics; Morals; Moral Development; Moral Education; Philosophy; Values
Friendship
Literature; Writing; Authorship; Reading; Books; Poetry; Storytelling; Letter Writing
Monarchy
Myth; Legends; Epic Literature; Fables; Allegory; Folklore
Religion; Religion and Culture
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Attribution (not in Oppenlander) based on reprinting of this poem, adorned with a Greek epigraph, in the copyright edition of The Poems of Owen Meredith (i.e. Robert Bulwer Lytton) 2 vols (Leipzig: Tauchnitz, 1869) II, pp. 3–19.

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In Jeopardy

27/1/1866

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Author George Manville Fenn
Genre Prose: Short Fiction i
Subjects Accidents; Accident Victims—Fiction; Fires; Search and Rescue Operations; Natural Disasters; Disasters; Disaster Relief
Country Life; Rural Conditions; Rural Conditions in Literature; Rural Development
London (England)—Description and Travel
Social classes; Class distinctions; Aristocracy (Social Class); Aristocracy (Social Class)—Fiction; Middle Class; Working Class; Servants;
Work; Work and Family; Occupations; Professions; Wages
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Author Charles Dickens
Genre Prose: Editorial i
Subjects France—Description and Travel
Language and Languages
Law; Lawyers; Justice; Courts; Trials
Literature; Writing; Authorship; Reading; Books; Poetry; Storytelling; Letter Writing
Newspapers; Periodicals; Journalism
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This article may have been authored by Charles Dickens; the attribution is unproven.  

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