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Balloon Mad

2/8/1862

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Author Henry Morley
Genre Prose: Autobiography; Biography; Memoirs; Obituary; Anecdotes i
Subjects Accidents; Accident Victims—Fiction; Fires; Search and Rescue Operations; Natural Disasters; Disasters; Disaster Relief
Art; Design; Painting; Sculpture; Photography; Interior Decoration;
Inventors; Inventions
Popular Culture; Amusements
Transportation; Horse-Drawn Vehicles; Cab and Omnibus Service; Ballooning
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No Name [xxii]

9/8/1862

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Author Wilkie Collins
Genres Prose: Leading Article i
Prose: Serial Fiction i
Subjects Character; Character Sketches; Caricature
Family Life; Families; Domestic Relations; Sibling Relations; Kinship; Home;
Fraud; Forgery; Deception; Betrayal—Fiction
Marriage; Courtship; Love; Sex
Money; Finance; Banking; Investments; Taxation; Insurance; Debt; Inheritance and Succession
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Genre Prose: Digest; Review i
Subjects Great Britain—Colonies—Description and Travel
Race; Racism; Ethnicity; Anthropology; Ethnography
Southeast Asia—Description and Travel
Southeast Asia—Social Life and Customs
Travel; Tourism; Hotels; Resorts; Seaside Resorts—Fiction; Passports;
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Based in part on Spenser St. John, Life in the Forests of the Far East, or Travels in Northern Borneo (London: Smith, Elder, and Co., 1862).

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Boating

9/8/1862

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Genre Poetry: Narrative i
Subjects Children; Childhood; Pregnancy; Childbirth; Child Rearing; Adoption; Child Labor
Religion; Religion and Culture
Religion—Christianity—Catholic Church
Ships; Boats; Shipwrecks; Salvage; Merchant Marine; Sailors; Sailing; Submarines (Ships)
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Genre Prose: Digest; Review i
Subjects Crime; Criminals; Punishment; Capital Punishment; Prisons; Penal Transportation; Penal Colonies
France—Description and Travel
France—Social Conditions
Police; Detectives; Mystery and Detective Stories; Mystery; Mystery Fiction; Forensic Sciences
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Based in part on Louis Canler, Autobiography of a French Detective from 1818 to 1858, comprising the Most Curious Revelations of the French Detective Police System  (London: Ward and Lock,1862).

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Genre Prose: Essay i
Subject Beauty, Personal; Grooming; Appearance (Philosophy); Physiognomy
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Red-Cape

9/8/1862

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Genre Prose: Short Fiction i
Subjects Education—Europe; Universities and Colleges; Schools
France—Description and Travel
France—Politics and Government
Progress; Memory; Commemoration; Nostaliga; Time—Social Aspects; Time—Psychological Aspects; Time perception;
Revolutions; Revolutions—History; Riots; Riots—Fiction; Political Violence
Social classes; Class distinctions; Aristocracy (Social Class); Aristocracy (Social Class)—Fiction; Middle Class; Working Class; Servants;
Supernatural; Superstition; Spiritualism; Clairvoyance; Mesmerism; Ghosts; Fairies; Witches; Magic; Occultism
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No Name [xxiii]

16/8/1862

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Author Wilkie Collins
Genres Prose: Leading Article i
Prose: Serial Fiction i
Subjects Fraud; Forgery; Deception; Betrayal—Fiction
Marriage; Courtship; Love; Sex
Science; Science—History; Technology; Technological innovations; Discoveries in Science
Travel; Tourism; Hotels; Resorts; Seaside Resorts—Fiction; Passports;
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Genres Prose: Digest; Review i
Prose: Essay i
Subjects Europe—History
Great Britain—History
Language and Languages
Literature; Writing; Authorship; Reading; Books; Poetry; Storytelling; Letter Writing
Popular Culture; Amusements
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Genre Prose: Report i
Subjects Animals; Domestic Animals; Pets; Working Animals; Birds; Insects
Country Life; Rural Conditions; Rural Conditions in Literature; Rural Development
Sports; Games; Leisure; Pleasure; Hunting; Horse Racing; Gambling; Duelling
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Genre Prose: Essay i
Subjects Curiosities and Wonders
Death; Grief; Mourning; Mourning Customs in Literature; Funeral Rites and Ceremonies; Life Cycle, Human; Old Age; Mortality
Dreams; Visions; Sleep
France—Description and Travel
Great Britain—Description and Travel
Supernatural; Superstition; Spiritualism; Clairvoyance; Mesmerism; Ghosts; Fairies; Witches; Magic; Occultism
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Out in Oregon

16/8/1862

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Genre Prose: Travel-writing i
Subjects Emigration; Immigration; Expatriation
Explorers and Exploration; Wilderness Survival; Survival; Adventure and Adventurers
Fraud; Forgery; Deception; Betrayal—Fiction
Race; Racism; Ethnicity; Anthropology; Ethnography
Travel; Tourism; Hotels; Resorts; Seaside Resorts—Fiction; Passports;
United States—Description and Travel
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No Name [xxiv]

23/8/1862

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Author Wilkie Collins
Genres Prose: Leading Article i
Prose: Serial Fiction i
Subjects Character; Character Sketches; Caricature
Fraud; Forgery; Deception; Betrayal—Fiction
Psychology; Psychiatry; Mental Health; Mind-Body Relations (Metaphysics)
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Genre Prose: Report i
Subjects Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of all Nations (1851)
Museums; Palaces; Exhibitions; Libraries
Physical Sciences (Chemistry / Earth Sciences / Geography / Mathematics / Metallurgy / Physics)
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See also 'Ignoramus at the International Exhibition', All the Year Round, VII, No. 165.

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Genre Prose: Digest; Review i
Subjects Italy—Description and Travel
Italy—History—General
Italy—History—War of 1859; Italy—History—War of 1860-1861 (Wars of Italian Unification); Italy—History—1849-70
Italy—Politics and Government
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Based in part on Count Charles Arrivabene, Italy under Victor Emmanuel: A Personal Narrative, 2 vols (London : Hurst & Blackett,1862)

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From the Wilds

23/8/1862

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Genre Poetry: Lyric i
Subjects Emigration; Immigration; Expatriation
Friendship
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A Judicial Error

23/8/1862

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Genre Prose: Snippet i
Subjects Crime; Criminals; Punishment; Capital Punishment; Prisons; Penal Transportation; Penal Colonies
France—History
Law; Lawyers; Justice; Courts; Trials
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Solid Reasons

23/8/1862

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Author Henry T. Spicer
Genre Prose: Short Fiction i
Subjects Beauty, Personal; Grooming; Appearance (Philosophy); Physiognomy
Bureaucracy; Civil Service
Marriage; Courtship; Love; Sex
People with Disabilities; Human Body—Social Aspects; Human Bodies in Literature
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Attribution: Kathleen Tillotson, 'Henry Spicer, Forster, and Dickens', Dickensian, 84 (1988), p. 77.

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Advertisements

23/8/1862

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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 Seventh Volume of All the Year Round
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No Name [xxv]

30/8/1862

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Author Wilkie Collins
Genres Prose: Leading Article i
Prose: Serial Fiction i
Subjects Fraud; Forgery; Deception; Betrayal—Fiction
Law; Lawyers; Justice; Courts; Trials
Medical care; Nursing; Hospitals; Hospital Care; Surgery; Medicine; Physicians
Social classes; Class distinctions; Aristocracy (Social Class); Aristocracy (Social Class)—Fiction; Middle Class; Working Class; Servants;
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