Table of Contents
| CHAPTER I. 1842. | |
| Pages 21-39. | |
| American Notes. Æt. 30. | |
| PAGE | |
| Return from America | 21 |
| Longfellow in England | 22 |
| At Broadstairs | 23 |
| Preparing Notes | 23 |
| Fancy for opening of Chuzzlewit | 24 |
| Attractions at Margate | 25 |
| Being, not always Believing | 26 |
| Burlesque of classic tragedy | 26 |
| A smart man and forged letter | 26 |
| A proposed dedication | 27 |
| Authorship and sea bathing | 28 |
| Easy-living rich and patient poor | 28 |
| Coming to the end | 29 |
| Rejected motto for Notes | 30 |
| Home of the Every Day Book | 31 |
| Scene at a funeral | 32 |
| An introductory chapter suppressed | 33 |
| Chapter first printed | 33-37 |
| Jeffrey’s opinion of the Notes | 38 |
| Later page anticipated | 38 |
| Experience of America in 1868 | 38 |
| CHAPTER II. 1843. | |
| Pages 40-62. | |
| First Year of Martin Chuzzlewit. Æt. 31. | |
| A sunset at Land’s-end | 40 |
| A holiday described by C. D. | 41 |
| The same described by Maclise | 42 |
| A landscape and a portrait | 43 |
| Names first given to Chuzzlewit | 44 |
| Origin of the novel | 45 |
| Prologue to a play | 45 |
| On a tragedy by Browning | 46 |
| George Eliot’s first book | 47 |
| Accompaniments of work | 47 |
| Miss Georgina Hogarth | 48 |
| Three portraits | 49 |
| A public benefactor | 50 |
| Controversy on Notes | 50 |
| Original of Mrs. Gamp | 51 |
| What he will do with her | 51 |
| John Black | 53 |
| Macready and America | 53 |
| Apprehended disservice | 54 |
| Exertions for Elton family | 55 |
| Seaside life in ordinary | 55 |
| Public speeches | 56 |
| Ragged schools and results | 57 |
| Unitarianism | 59 |
| Return to Church of England | 59 |
| Language of his Will | 59 |
| Christmas Carol | 60 |
| Birth of third son | 61 |
| Amusing letter | 61 |
| CHAPTER III. 1843-1844. | |
| Pages 63-92. | |
| Chuzzlewit Disappointments and Christmas Carol. Æt. 31-32. | |
| Falling-off in Chuzzlewit sale | 63 |
| Publishers and authors | 64 |
| Premature fears | 65 |
| Resolve to change his publishers | 66 |
| Proposal to his printers | 66 |
| Desire to travel again | 67 |
| Ways and means | 68 |
| Objections to the scheme | 69 |
| Confidence in himself | 70 |
| Want of confidence in others | 70 |
| Bent on his plan | 71 |
| Turning point of his career | 72 |
| Grounds for course taken | 73 |
| On Martin Chuzzlewit | 74 |
| American portions | 75 |
| The book’s special superiority | 76 |
| News from America | 76 |
| American consolations | 77 |
| Why no Pecksniffs in France | 78 |
| Why Tartuffes in England | 78 |
| A favourite scene of Thackeray’s | 79 |
| Process of creation in a novel | 80 |
| Intended motto for story | 81 |
| Leading characters | 82 |
| A superb masterpiece | 83 |
| Triumph of humorous art | 84 |
| Publication of Christmas Carol | 84 |
| Unrealized hopes | 85 |
| Results of Carol sale | 86 |
| Renewed negotiations with printers | 87 |
| Agreement with Bradbury and Evans | 88 |
| Letters about the Carol | 89 |
| Spirit of the book | 90 |
| Something better than literature | 91 |
| CHAPTER IV. 1844. | |
| Pages 93-110. | |
| Year of Departure for Italy. Æt. 32. | |
| Gore-house friends | 93 |
| Sensitive for his calling | 94 |
| A troublesome cheque | 95 |
| Education speeches | 95 |
| Sufferings from stage-adaptations | 96 |
| Wrongs from piracy | 96 |
| Proceedings in Chancery | 97 |
| A pirate’s plea | 97 |
| Result of Chancery experience | 99 |
| Piracy preferred | 99 |
| Reliefs to work | 100 |
| The tempted and tempter | 101 |
| Favourite bit of humour | 102 |
| Criticized without humour | 102 |
| Taine on Dickens | 102 |
| Macready in New Orleans | 103 |
| Society in England | 104 |
| Writing in the Chronicle | 104 |
| Conference with its new editor | 104 |
| Preparations for departure | 105 |
| In temporary quarters | 106 |
| Begging-letter case | 106 |
| The farewell dinner-party | 107 |
| “Evenings of a Working-man” | 108 |
| Greenwich dinner | 109 |
| J. M. W. Turner and Carlyle | 110 |
| CHAPTER V. 1844. | |
| Pages 111-138. | |
| Idleness at Albaro: Villa Bagnerello. Æt. 32. | |
| The travel to Italy | 111 |
| A bit of character | 112 |
| French thrown away | 112 |
| The Albaro villa | 113 |
| First experiences | 114 |
| Cloudy weather | 115 |
| Sunsets and scenery | 116 |
| Address to Maclise | 116 |
| The Mediterranean | 117 |
| Colours of sky and sea | 117 |
| Warning to Maclise | 118 |
| Perishing frescoes | 118 |
| French Consul at Genoa | 119 |
| Rooms in villa described | 120 |
| Surrounding scenery | 121 |
| Church-ruin on the rocks | 121 |
| Angus Fletcher’s sketch | 121 |
| Work in abeyance | 122 |
| Learning Italian | 122 |
| Domestic news | 123 |
| His English servants | 123 |
| English residents | 124 |
| Genoa the superb | 125 |
| Church splendours and tinsel | 126 |
| Theatres | 126 |
| Italian plays | 127 |
| Dumas’ Kean | 127 |
| Religious houses | 128 |
| Sunday promenade | 128 |
| Winter residence chosen | 129 |
| A lucky arrival | 129 |
| Dinner at French Consul’s | 130 |
| Verses in C. D.’s honour | 130 |
| Others in Prince Joinville’s | 131 |
| Rumours of war with England | 131 |
| A Marquis’s reception | 132 |
| Flight and tumble | 133 |
| Quiet enjoyments | 134 |
| English visitors and news | 135 |
| Talk with Lord Robertson | 135 |
| A suggestion for Jerrold | 136 |
| Visit of Frederick Dickens | 136 |
| An inn on the Alps | 136 |
| Dangers of sea-bathing | 137 |
| A change beginning | 138 |
| CHAPTER VI. 1844. | |
| Pages 139-162. | |
| Work in Genoa: Palazzo Peschiere. Æt. 32. | |
| Palace of the Fish-ponds | 139 |
| Rooms and frescoes | 140 |
| View over the city | 141 |
| Dancing and praying | 142 |
| Peschiere garden | 142 |
| Trying to write | 143 |
| A difficulty settled | 143 |
| Craving for streets | 144 |
| Design for his book | 144 |
| Governor’s levee | 144 |
| Absence of the poet | 145 |
| Subject he is working at | 145 |
| C. D.’s politics | 146 |
| Choice of a hero | 147 |
| Master-passion | 147 |
| Religious sentiment | 147 |
| A dream | 148 |
| Dialogue in a vision | 149 |
| “What is the True religion?” | 149 |
| Fragments of reality in a vision | 149 |
| Trying regions of thought | 150 |
| Reverence for Doctor Arnold | 150 |
| First part of book finished | 151 |
| Anticipation of its close | 151 |
| Differences from published tale | 152 |
| First outline of the Chimes | 152-156 |
| Liking for the subject | 156 |
| What the writing cost him | 156 |
| Realities of fictitious sorrow | 157 |
| Wild mountain weather | 157 |
| Banquet at the Whistle | 158 |
| Startling news | 158 |
| Coming to London | 159 |
| Secret of the visit | 160 |
| Eager to try effect of story | 160 |
| Plans a reading at my rooms | 160 |
| The tale finished | 161 |
| Proposed travel | 161 |
| Party for the Reading | 162 |
| CHAPTER VII. 1844. | |
| Pages 163-178. | |
| Italian Travel. Æt. 32. | |
| Cities and people | 163 |
| Venice | 164 |
| Rapture of enjoyment | 165 |
| Aboard the city | 165 |
| What he saw and felt | 165 |
| Solitary thoughts | 166 |
| At Lodi | 166 |
| About paintings and engravings | 167 |
| Titian and Tintoretto | 168 |
| Conventionalities | 169 |
| Monks and painters | 169 |
| The inns | 170 |
| Compensation for discomfort | 170 |
| Brave C of his Pictures | 171 |
| Louis Roche of Avignon | 171 |
| Dinner at the Peschiere | 172 |
| Custom-house officers | 173 |
| At Milan and Strasburg | 173 |
| Passing the Simplon | 174 |
| In London | 174 |
| A Reading in Lincoln’s-inn-fields | 174 |
| Persons present | 175 |
| Success of the visit | 175 |
| In Paris with Macready | 176 |
| Origin of our private play | 176 |
| A recognition at Marseilles | 177 |
| Friendly Americans | 177 |
| On board for Genoa | 177 |
| Information for travellers | 178 |
| CHAPTER VIII. 1845. | |
| Pages 179-200. | |
| Last Months in Italy. Æt. 33. | |
| Birthday gift for eldest son | 179 |
| Suspicious “Characters” | 180 |
| Jesuit interferences | 180 |
| Birth of 1845 | 180 |
| Travel southward | 181 |
| Carrara and Pisa | 181 |
| A wild journey | 182 |
| Birds of prey | 183 |
| A beggar and his staff | 183 |
| “My lord” loses temper | 184 |
| And has the worst of it | 184 |
| At Rome | 184 |
| The Campagna | 185 |
| Bay of Naples | 185 |
| Filth of Naples and Fondi | 186 |
| The Lazzaroni | 186 |
| False picturesque | 187 |
| Sad English news | 187 |
| True friends in calamity | 188 |
| At Florence | 188 |
| Wayside memorials and Landor’s villa | 189 |
| Death of Bobus Smith | 190 |
| At Lord Holland’s | 190 |
| Lord Palmerston’s brother | 190 |
| Again at the Peschiere | 190 |
| To publish or not? | 191 |
| Thoughts of home | 192 |
| American friends | 192 |
| Deaths among English residents | 193 |
| Scarlet breeches out of place | 193 |
| Angus Fletcher | 193 |
| Complaint of a meek footman | 194 |
| Recalling Lady Holland | 194 |
| A touch of Portsmouth | 195 |
| Plans for meeting | 196 |
| Last letter from Genoa | 196 |
| Closing excitements and troubles | 196 |
| Italians hard at work | 197 |
| Returning by Switzerland | 197 |
| Passage of the St. Gothard | 198 |
| Splendours of Swiss scenery | 198 |
| Dangers of it | 199 |
| What is left behind the Alps | 199 |
| A week in Flanders | 200 |
| CHAPTER IX. 1845-1846. | |
| Pages 201-221. | |
| Again in England. Æt. 33-34. | |
| Old hopes revived | 201 |
| Notions for a periodical | 201 |
| Proposed prospectus | 202 |
| Chances for and against it | 203 |
| Swept away by larger venture | 203 |
| Christmas book of 1845 | 204 |
| D’Orsay and the courier | 204 |
| Another passage of Autobiography | 204 |
| More of the story of early years | 205 |
| Wish to try the stage | 205 |
| Applies to manager of Covent Garden | 205 |
| Sister Fanny in the secret | 206 |
| Stage studies and rehearsings | 206 |
| Strange news for Macready | 207 |
| Requisites of author and actor | 208 |
| Play chosen for private performance | 209 |
| Fanny Kelly and her theatre | 209 |
| Every Man in his Humour | 209 |
| The company of actors | 210 |
| Enjoying a character | 210 |
| Troubles of management | 210 |
| First and second performances | 211 |
| Of the acting | 211 |
| C. D. as performer | 212 |
| C. D. as manager | 212 |
| Two human mysteries | 213 |
| The mysteries explained | 213 |
| Training for the stage | 213 |
| At Broadstairs | 214 |
| Ramsgate entertainments | 214 |
| Birth of fourth son | 215 |
| Second raven’s death | 215 |
| Intended daily paper | 215 |
| Disturbing engagements | 216 |
| Old ways interrupted | 216 |
| My appeal against the enterprise | 217 |
| Reply and issue | 217 |
| Interruption and renewal | 218 |
| The beginning and the end | 218 |
| Forming new resolve | 219 |
| Back to old scenes | 219 |
| Editorship ceased | 219 |
| Going to Switzerland | 220 |
| A happy saying | 221 |
| Leaves England | 221 |
| CHAPTER X. 1846. | |
| Pages 222-243. | |
| A Home in Switzerland. Æt. 34. | |
| On the Rhine | 222 |
| German readers of Dickens | 223 |
| Travelling Englishmen | 223 |
| A hoaxing-match | 224 |
| House-hunting | 224 |
| Tempted by a mansion | 225 |
| Chooses a cottage | 225 |
| Earliest impressions | 226 |
| Lausanne described | 227 |
| Views from his farm | 228 |
| Under his windows | 228 |
| A sketch of Rosemont | 229 |
| Design as to work | 230 |
| The English colony | 231 |
| Unaccommodating carriage | 232 |
| A death in the lake | 232 |
| Boatman’s narrative | 233 |
| The Theatre | 233 |
| The Prison | 234 |
| The Blind Institution | 235 |
| Interesting cases | 235-240 |
| Beginning work | 240 |
| First slip of New Novel | 241 |
| Sortes Shandyanæ | 242 |
| The Christmas tale | 242 |
| CHAPTER XI. 1846. | |
| Pages 244-260. | |
| Swiss People and Scenery. Æt. 34. | |
| The mountains and lake | 244 |
| The people and their manners | 245 |
| A country fête | 246 |
| Family sketch | 246 |
| Rifle-shooting | 247 |
| A marriage on the farm | 248 |
| Gunpowder festivities | 248 |
| Bride and mother | 248 |
| First number of Dombey | 249 |
| Christmas book | 249 |
| General idea for new story | 250 |
| Hints for illustration of it | 250 |
| Haldimands and Cerjats | 251 |
| Visit of Henry Hallam | 251 |
| Local news | 252 |
| Sight-seers from England | 252 |
| Trip to Chamounix | 253 |
| Mule-travelling | 253 |
| Mont Blanc range | 254 |
| Mer de Glace | 255 |
| Tête Noire pass | 255 |
| Help in an accident | 256 |
| English, French, and Prussian | 256 |
| Second number of Dombey | 257 |
| Castle of Chillon described | 257 |
| Honour to New Constitution | 258 |
| Political celebration | 258 |
| Malcontents | 259 |
| Good conduct of the people | 259 |
| Protestant and Catholic cantons | 260 |
| A timely word on Ireland | 260 |
| CHAPTER XII. 1846. | |
| Pages 261-276. | |
| Sketches Chiefly Personal. Æt. 34. | |
| Home politics | 261 |
| The Whigs and Peel | 261 |
| Belief in emigration schemes | 262 |
| Mark Lemon | 263 |
| An incident of character | 263 |
| Hood’s Tylney Hall | 264 |
| Trait of the Duke of Wellington | 264 |
| Mr. Watson of Rockingham | 264 |
| A recollection of reporting days | 265 |
| Returns to Dombey | 265 |
| Two English travellers | 266 |
| Party among the hills | 267 |
| A Smollett and Fielding hero | 268 |
| Milksop youths | 268 |
| Ogre and Lambs | 268 |
| Sir Joseph and his family | 269 |
| Lord Vernon | 270 |
| Passion for rifle-shooting | 270 |
| A wonderful carriage | 270 |
| The Ladies Taylor | 271 |
| Proposed Reading of first Dombey | 272 |
| A sketch from life | 272 |
| Two sisters and their books | 272 |
| Trip to Great St. Bernard | 273 |
| Ascent of the mountain | 274 |
| The Convent | 274 |
| Scene at the mountain top | 274 |
| Bodies found in the snow | 275 |
| The holy fathers | 275 |
| A tavern all but sign | 276 |
| The monk and Pickwick | 276 |
| CHAPTER XIII. 1846. | |
| Pages 277-294. | |
| Literary Labour at Lausanne. Æt. 34. | |
| A picture completed | 277 |
| Great present want | 277 |
| Daily life | 278 |
| Imaginative needs | 278 |
| Self-judgments | 279 |
| The Now and the Hereafter | 279 |
| Fancies for Christmas books | 280 |
| Second number of Dombey | 280 |
| A personal revelation | 281 |
| Craving for streets | 281 |
| Food for fancy | 282 |
| Second Dombey done | 282 |
| Curious wants of the mind | 283 |
| Success of the Reading | 283 |
| First thought of Public Readings | 284 |
| Two stories in hand | 285 |
| Unexpected difficulties | 286 |
| Work under sensitive conditions | 286 |
| Alarm for Dombey | 287 |
| Doubts and misgivings | 287 |
| Change of scene to be tried | 287 |
| At Genoa | 288 |
| Disquietudes of authorship | 288 |
| Wanting counsel | 289 |
| At the worst | 289 |
| Report of Genoa | 290 |
| A new social experience | 290 |
| Feminine eccentricities | 291 |
| A ladies’ dinner | 291 |
| Elephant-quellers | 292 |
| “Like a Manchester cotton mill” | 292 |
| Again at Rosemont | 293 |
| Visit of the Talfourds | 293 |
| Lodging his friends | 294 |
| Intentions and hope | 294 |
| CHAPTER XIV. 1846. | |
| Pages 295-315. | |
| Revolution at Geneva. Christmas Book and Last Days in Switzerland. Æt. 34. | |
| An arrival of manuscript | 295 |
| A title | 295 |
| Large sale of Dombey | 296 |
| Again at Geneva | 296 |
| Rising against the Jesuits | 297 |
| Back to Lausanne | 297 |
| The fight in Geneva | 298 |
| Rifle against cannon | 299 |
| True objection to Roman-Catholicism | 299 |
| Genevese “aristocracy” | 299 |
| A lesson | 300 |
| Traces left by revolution | 300 |
| Abettors of revolution | 301 |
| Where the shoe pinches | 301 |
| Daily News’ changes | 302 |
| My surrender of editorship | 302 |
| Thoughts for the future | 303 |
| Letters about Battle of Life | 303 |
| Jeffrey’s opinion | 303 |
| Sketch of story | 304 |
| A difficulty in plot | 305 |
| Old characteristics | 305 |
| His own comments | 306 |
| Reply to criticism | 307 |
| Stanfield illustrations | 307 |
| Doubts of third part | 308 |
| Strengthening the close | 308 |
| Objections invited | 309 |
| Tendency to blank verse | 309 |
| Grave mistake by Leech | 310 |
| How dealt with by C. D. | 310 |
| First impulse | 311 |
| Kindly afterthought | 311 |
| Lord Gobden and free trade | 312 |
| Needs while at work | 312 |
| Pleasures of autumn | 313 |
| Striking tents | 314 |
| Sadness of leave-taking | 314 |
| Travelling to Paris | 314 |
| At Paris | 315 |
| CHAPTER XV. 1846-1847. | |
| Pages 316-333. | |
| Three Months in Paris. Æt. 34-35. | |
| A greeting from Lord Brougham | 316 |
| French Sunday | 317 |
| A house taken | 317 |
| Absurdity of the abode | 318 |
| Its former tenant | 319 |
| Sister Fanny’s illness | 319 |
| Opinion of Elliotson | 320 |
| The king of the barricades | 320 |
| Unhealthy symptoms | 321 |
| Incident in the streets | 321 |
| The Parisian population | 322 |
| Americans and French | 322 |
| Unsettlement of plans | 323 |
| Eldest son’s education | 323 |
| A true friend | 323 |
| Christmas tale on the stage | 323 |
| An alarming neighbour | 325 |
| Startling blue-devils | 326 |
| Approach to cannibalism | 326 |
| In London | 326 |
| Cheap edition of works | 326 |
| Suppressed dedication | 326 |
| Return to Paris | 326 |
| Begging-letter writers | 327 |
| Friendly services | 327 |
| Imaginary dialogue | 328 |
| A Boulogne reception | 328 |
| Cautions to a traveller | 329 |
| Citizen Dickens | 330 |
| Sight-seeing | 330 |
| At theatres | 330 |
| Visits to famous Frenchmen | 331 |
| Evening with Victor Hugo | 331 |
| Adventure with a coachman | 332 |
| Bibliothèque Royale | 333 |
| Premonitory symptoms | 333 |
| In London | 334 |
| A party at Gore-house | 334 |
| Illness of eldest son | 335 |
| Snuff-shop readings | 336 |
| Old charwoman’s compliment | 336 |
| CHAPTER XVI. 1846-1848. | |
| Pages 337-367. | |
| Dombey and Son. Æt. 34-36. | |
| Drift of the tale | 337 |
| Why undervalued | 338 |
| Mistakes of critics | 338 |
| Adherence to first design | 338 |
| Plan for Paul and his sister | 339 |
| For Dombey and his daughter | 339 |
| Proposed course of the story | 340 |
| “The stock of the soup” | 340 |
| Walter Gay and his fate | 341 |
| Decided favourably | 341 |
| Six pages too much | 342 |
| Omissions objected to | 342 |
| New chapter written | 343 |
| Portions sacrificed | 343 |
| Anxiety for the face of his hero | 344 |
| A suggested type of city-gentleman | 344 |
| Artist-fancies for Mr. Dombey | 345-6 |
| Dickens and his illustrators | 347 |
| A silly story repeated | 347 |
| Why noticed again | 348 |
| Facsimile of letter to Cruikshank | 349-50 |
| Dickens’s words at the time | 349 |
| Cruikshank’s thirty-four years after | 350 |
| A masterpiece of Dickens’s writing | 351 |
| Picture of him at work | 352 |
| An experience of Ben Jonson’s | 352 |
| How objections are taken | 352 |
| Shall Paul’s life be prolonged? | 353 |
| A Reading of the second number | 353 |
| A number to be added to Paul’s life | 354 |
| Failure of an illustration | 354 |
| What it should have been | 355 |
| The Mrs. Pipchin of his childhood | 355 |
| First thought of his Autobiography | 356 |
| Opening his fourth number | 356 |
| At Doctor Blimber’s | 357 |
| Paul’s school life | 357 |
| Paul and Florence | 357 |
| Jeffrey’s forecast of the tale | 358 |
| Beginning his fifth number | 359 |
| What he will do with it | 359 |
| A damper to the spirits | 359 |
| Close of Paul’s life | 360 |
| Jeffrey on Paul’s death | 361 |
| Thoughts for Edith | 362 |
| Florence and Little Nell | 362 |
| Judgments and comparisons | 363 |
| Edith’s first destiny | 363 |
| Doubts suggested | 364 |
| An important change | 364 |
| Diogenes remembered | 365 |
| Other characters | 365 |
| Blimber establishment | 366 |
| Supposed originals | 366 |
| Surmises entirely wrong | 367 |
| CHAPTER XVII. 1847-1852. | |
| Pages 368-402. | |
| Splendid Strolling. Æt. 35-40. | |
| Birth of fifth son | 368 |
| Death of Lieut. Sydney Dickens | 368 |
| Proposed benefit for Leigh Hunt | 369 |
| The plays and actors | 370 |
| The manager | 370 |
| Troubles at rehearsals | 371 |
| Pains rewarded | 371 |
| Leigh Hunt’s account | 372 |
| Receipts and expenses | 373 |
| Lord Lytton’s prologue | 373 |
| Appearance of Mrs. Gamp | 374 |
| Fancy for a jeu d’esprit | 374 |
| Mrs. Gamp at the play | 375 |
| Failure of artists | 375 |
| An unfinished fancy | 375 |
| Mrs. Gamp with the strollers | 376 |
| Alarm of Mrs. Harris | 376 |
| Leigh Hunt and Poole | 377 |
| Ticklish society | 378 |
| Mrs. Gamp’s cabman | 378 |
| George Cruikshank | 379 |
| Mr. Wilson the barber | 379 |
| Wig experiences | 380 |
| Fatigues of a powder ball | 380 |
| Manager’s moustache and whiskers | 381 |
| Leech, Lemon, and Jerrold | 381-2 |
| Mrs. Gamp’s dislike of “Dougladge” | 382 |
| Costello, Stone, and Egg | 383 |
| “Only the engine” | 384 |
| Cruikshank’s Bottle | 384 |
| Profits of Dombey | 385 |
| Time come for savings | 385 |
| Proposed edition of old novels | 385 |
| Another dropped design | 386 |
| The Praslin tragedy | 386 |
| Penalty for seeing before others | 387 |
| Street-music | 387 |
| Margate theatre and manager | 387 |
| As to Christmas book | 388 |
| Delay found necessary | 389 |
| A literary Kitely | 389 |
| Meetings at Leeds and Glasgow | 390 |
| Book-friends | 391 |
| Sheriff Alison | 391 |
| Hospitable welcome | 391 |
| Scott-monument | 392 |
| Purchase of Shakespeare’s house | 392 |
| Scheme to benefit Knowles | 393 |
| Plays rehearsed | 394 |
| Merry Wives chosen | 394 |
| Performances and result | 394 |
| At Knebworth-park | 395 |
| Guild of Literature and Art | 396 |
| Unfortunate omission | 396 |
| The farce that was to be written | 396 |
| The farce that was substituted | 397 |
| Not so Bad as we Seem | 397 |
| Travelling theatre and scenes | 398 |
| Success of the comedy | 398 |
| An incident at Sunderland | 399 |
| Troubles of a manager | 399 |
| Acting under difficulties | 400 |
| Scenery overturned | 401 |
| Effects of fright | 401 |
| Mr. Wilkie Collins | 402 |
| CHAPTER XVIII. 1848-1851. | |
| Pages 403-441. | |
| Seaside Holidays. Æt. 36-39. | |
| Louis Philippe dethroned | 403 |
| French missive from C. D. | 404 |
| Aspirations of Citizen Dickens | 404 |
| At Broadstairs | 405 |
| By rail to China | 405 |
| The Junk | 406 |
| Mariners on deck and in cabin | 406 |
| Perplexing questions | 406 |
| A toy-shop on the seas | 407 |
| Type of finality | 407 |
| A contrast | 408 |
| Home questions | 408 |
| Temperance agitations | 409 |
| The temptations to gin-shop | 409 |
| Necessity of dealing with them | 409 |
| Stages anterior to drunkenness | 410 |
| Cruikshank’s satire | 410 |
| Realities of his pencil | 411 |
| Its one-sidedness | 411 |
| Dickens on Hogarth | 412 |
| Cause as well as effect | 412 |
| Exit of Gin-lane | 412 |
| Wisdom of the great painter | 413 |
| Late, but never too late | 413 |
| Dickens on designs by Leech | 414 |
| Originality of Leech | 414 |
| Superiority of his method | 415 |
| The requisites for it | 415 |
| Excuses for the rising generation | 416 |
| Intellectual juvenility | 416 |
| A dangerous youth | 417 |
| What Leech will be remembered for | 417 |
| Odd adventures | 418 |
| Pony-chaise accident | 418 |
| Parallel to Squeers | 419 |
| Strenuous idleness | 419 |
| French philosophy | 420 |
| Hint for Mr. Taine | 420 |
| The better for idleness | 421 |
| A favourite spot | 421 |
| At Brighton | 421 |
| With mad folks and doctors | 422 |
| A name for his new book | 422 |
| At Broadstairs | 422 |
| Troubles in his writing | 423 |
| A letter in character | 423 |
| At Bonchurch | 425 |
| The Rev. James White | 425 |
| Mirth and melancholy | 425 |
| Mrs. James White | 426 |
| First impressions of Undercliff | 426 |
| Talfourd made a judge | 427 |
| Dickens’s affection for him | 427 |
| Church-school examination | 428 |
| Dinners and pic-nics | 428 |
| The comedian Regnier | 429 |
| When acting is genuine | 429 |
| Doubts as to health | 429 |
| Arrivals and departures | 430 |
| A startling revelation | 431 |
| Effects of Bonchurch climate | 431 |
| Utter prostration | 431 |
| Difficulties of existing there | 432 |
| Distrust of doctors | 433 |
| Other side of picture | 433 |
| What I observed at the time | 434 |
| From the Copperfield MS. | 434 |
| Mr. Browne’s sketch of Micawber | 435 |
| Accident to John Leech | 435 |
| Its consequences | 435 |
| Depressing influences | 436 |
| At Broadstairs | 436 |
| Railway travellers | 437 |
| The exhibition year | 438 |
| A Copperfield banquet | 438 |
| C. D. on money values | 439 |
| His leisure reading | 439 |
| A correction for Carlyle | 440 |
| Good criticism | 441 |
| Thoughts of a new book | 441 |
| The old restlessness | 441 |
| Beginning on a Friday | 441 |
| CHAPTER XIX. 1848-1850. | |
| Pages 442-456. | |
| Haunted Man and Household Words. Æt. 36-40. | |
| Maturing book for Christmas | 442 |
| Friendly plea for Mr. Macrone | 442 |
| Completion of Christmas story | 443 |
| Dropped motto | 443 |
| The “ghost” and the “bargain” | 444 |
| The Tetterby family | 445 |
| Teachings of the little tale | 445 |
| His own statement of its intention | 446 |
| Forgive that you may forget | 446 |
| Copperfield sales | 447 |
| A letter from Russia | 448 |
| Translation into Russian | 448 |
| Sympathy of Siberia | 448 |
| The Periodical taking form | 449 |
| A design for it described | 449 |
| Original and selected matter | 449 |
| A Shadow for everywhere | 450 |
| Hopes of success | 450 |
| Doubts respecting it | 451 |
| Incompatibility of design | 451 |
| New design chosen | 452 |
| Assistant editor appointed | 453 |
| Titles proposed | 453 |
| Appearance of first number | 454 |
| Earliest contributors | 454 |
| Opinion of Mr. Sala | 454 |
| Child’s dream of a star | 455 |
| A fancy derived from childhood | 456 |
| CHAPTER XX. 1848-1851. | |
| Pages 457-494. | |
| Last Years in Devonshire Terrace. Æt. 36-39. | |
| Sentiment about places | 457 |
| Confidences | 458 |
| Personal revelations | 458 |
| Early memories | 459 |
| At his sister’s sick-bed | 459 |
| Last thoughts | 460 |
| Sister’s death | 460 |
| Book to be written in first person | 461 |
| Riding over Salisbury Plain | 461 |
| Visiting scene of a tragedy | 462 |
| First sees Yarmouth | 462 |
| Birth of sixth son | 462 |
| Notion for a character | 463 |
| Choosing a title | 463 |
| “Mag’s Diversions” | 464 |
| “Copperfield” chosen | 464 |
| Varieties of it proposed | 465 |
| Title finally determined | 466 |
| Difficulties of opening | 466 |
| Rogers and Benedict | 466 |
| Wit of Fonblanque | 467 |
| Procter and Macready | 467 |
| The Sheridans | 468 |
| Lord Byron’s Ada | 469 |
| Dinner to Halévy and Scribe | 469 |
| Brougham and “the Punch people” | 469 |
| The Duke at Vauxhall | 470 |
| Carlyle and Thackeray | 470 |
| Judicious change of a “tag” | 471 |
| A fact for a biographer | 471 |
| Marryat’s delight with children | 472 |
| Bulwer Lytton and Monckton Milnes | 472 |
| Lords Nugent and Dudley Stuart | 472-3 |
| Kemble, Harness, and Dyce | 473 |
| Mrs. Siddons and John Kemble | 473 |
| Comparison and good distinction | 474 |
| Mazzini and Edinburgh friends | 474 |
| Artist-acquaintance | 475 |
| Visitors at his house | 475 |
| Friends from America | 476 |
| M. Van de Weyer | 476 |
| Ambition to see into heaven | 477 |
| Literature and art in the city | 477 |
| Doubtful compliment | 478 |
| A hint for London citizens | 478 |
| Letter against public executions | 479 |
| American observer in England | 479 |
| Marvels of English manners | 480 |
| A letter from Rockingham | 481 |
| Private theatricals | 481 |
| Major Bentley and General Boxall | 481-2 |
| A family scene | 482 |
| Doing too much | 483 |
| Death of Francis Jeffrey | 483 |
| Progress of work | 484 |
| The child-wife | 484 |
| A run to Paris | 484 |
| Banker or proctor | 485 |
| Doubts as to Dora settled | 486 |
| Of Rogers and Landor | 486 |
| A third daughter born | 487 |
| At Great Malvern | 487 |
| Macready’s farewell | 488 |
| Experience of a brother author | 488 |
| The Home at Shepherd’s-bush | 488 |
| Father’s illness | 489 |
| Death of John Dickens | 489 |
| Tribute by his son | 490 |
| Theatrical-fund dinner | 490 |
| Plea for small actors | 491 |
| Remembering the forgotten | 491 |
| Death of his little daughter | 492 |
| Difficult tasks in life | 492 |
| Dora’s grave | 493 |
| Advocating sanitary reform | 493 |
| Lord Shaftesbury | 494 |
| Realities of his books to Dickens | 494 |