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’s Life and Times

Ackroyd, Peter. Dickens. London: Minerva Press, 1990.

Butt, John, and Kathleen Tillotson. Dickens at Work. London: Methuen, 1957.

House, Humphrey. The Dickens World. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1941.

Johnson, Edgar. Charles Dickens: His Tragedy and Triumph. Boston: Little, Brown, 1952.

Wilson, Angus. The World of Charles Dickens. New York: Viking Press, 1970.

Critical Works on Dickens

Brown, James. Dickens: Novelist in the Market-Place. London: Macmillan, 1982.

Collins, Philip. Dickens and Crime. London: Macmillan, 1965.

Kucich, John. Excess and Restraint in the Novels of Charles Dickens. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1981.

Sanders, Andrew. The Victorian Historical Novel, 1840-1880. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1979.

Stoehr, Taylor. Dickens:The Dreamer’s Stance. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1965.

Historical Studies of the French Revolution

Bindman, David. The Shadow of the Guillotine: Britain and the French Revolution. London: British Museum Publications, 1989.

Carlyle, Thomas. The French Revolution. 1837. Introduction by John D. Rosenberg. New York: Random House, 2002.

Cobban, Alfred. The Social Interpretation of the French Revolution. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1964.

Gough, Hugh. The Terror in the French Revolution. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 1998.

Hunt, Lynn. Politics, Culture, and Class in the French Revolution. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984.

Rudé, George. The Crowd in the French Revolution. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1959.

Schama, Simon. Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989.

Sydenham, M. J. The French Revolution. New York: Putnam, 1965.

Works Cited in the Introduction

Burke, Edmund. Reflections on the Revolution in France. Edited and with an introduction by J. G. A. Pocock. Indianapolis, IN: Hackett Publishing, 1987.

Dexter, Walter. “For One Night Only: An Account of the Famous Readings.” The Dickensian 37 (1940-1941), pp. 106-112.

Dickens, Charles. American Notes. London: Chapman and Hall, 1855.

———. “Railway Dreaming.” In ‘Gone Astray’ and Other Papers from Household Words 1851-59, edited by Michael Slater. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1999.

———. Letters. 12 vols. Edited by Graham Storey, Kathleen Tillotson, and Angus Easson. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1978.

———. Speeches. Edited by K. J. Fielding. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1960.

Neilson, Keith, and B. J. C. McKercher, eds. Go Spy the Land: Military Intelligence in History. Westport, CT: Praeger Press, 1992.

a

Apply a brake.

b

Short for damnation.

c

Name of a room at the inn.

d

Unpainted.

e

Cheated.

f

Legal term meaning right of inheritance.

g

Sedan chair, borne on poles by two men; a forerunner to the modern taxicab.

h

Telescope.

i

The château towers are conical, the same shape as a candlesnuffer.

j

Slatted window blinds, forerunners of Venetian blinds.

k

Very hard.

l

Single-horse carriage.

m

Packet of coins.

n

Iron keys for use in the assembly of a bedstead.

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