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Index

Charles Dickens is sometimes referred to as “CD” within this index.

interpretation of, 69–70, 212; as frag-

ment, 57; influence of, 17–19, 73–84;

interpretation of, 16, 17–19, 69 –70,

212–13; kinds of writing included in,

69–70; meaningless end of story, 73;

motivations for writing, 59 – 65; solitary

confinement and, 200; streets and walk-

ing in, 172, 175–76; writing of, 57, 72.

See also blacking factory (Warren’s); For-

ster, John; Life of Charles Dickens (Forster)

autobiographical writing: ambivalence

toward, 60 – 61, 87; in David Copperfield,

39 – 40, 41; death and, 61; fear of, 59– 60;

motivations for, 59– 65; requests for

information, 60 – 61, 92; rule of reticence

toward, 60 – 61; Shadows and, 56

Bagehot, Walter, 3 – 4

Bakhtin, M. M., 34 –35

Barnaby Rudge: bells in, 185; circumstances

of creation, 26; evil eye and, 107; streets

in, 193

The Battle of Life, 65

Beadnell, George, 59

Beadnell, Maria, 23–25, 81–83

Beadnell family, 27, 59

Beard, Thomas, 97–98

bells, 184 –87, 194

Benjamin, Walter, 177–78, 220

Bentley, Richard, 25

Bentley’s Miscellany, 25, 26

biographical criticism, 15–16

biography: chronology and, 15–16;

interpretation problems and, 16 –19.

See also autobiographical fragment;

autobiographical writing

blacking factory ( Warren’s): advertising

jingles later written for, 68– 69; interpre-

tation and, 16, 17–19, 69–70, 212–13;

Abbas, Ackbar, 106
Abercrombie, John, 8
Ackroyd, Peter: on Maclise/Forster rivalry,
96; on Macready, 98; on Skimpole, 211;
on speechmaking, 57; on truth, 29; on
walking, 219
Adrian, Arthur A., 218
agents of CD: Austin as, 143– 45, 155; as
essential, 135; Georgina Hogarth as, 135,
151; limited powers of, 137; Mitton as,
129, 130, 142; Mrs. Morson, 137; Wills
as, 134 –35
Ainsworth, William, 96
Albright, Daniel, 69
allegory, 12–14
Allen, Michael, 212
All the Year Round: female contributors to,
correspondence with, 93; frame stories
in, 166, 202; installment novels written to
support, 83; Skimpole-Hunt connection
and, 44 – 45; topics in, 30; travel pieces,
87; Uncommercial Traveller, 87, 154 –55,
187, 189 – 90, 191– 92, 206 –7
Altick, Richard D., 211
American Notes, 28, 198–201
Anderson, Amanda, 217
Andrews, Malcolm, 213 –14
anti-Catholicism, 32–33
“An Appeal to Fallen Women,” 138
“Arcadian London,” 191
Armstrong, Frances, 217
Ashley, Lord, 62, 64, 67
Ashton, Rosemary, 209
Austin, Henry, 142, 143 – 45, 155–56, 165, 179
Austin, Letitia, 165
autobiographical fragment (Dickens): anger
at family in, 61– 62; child-as-spectacle in,
70 –71; concealment of, 17, 138; Fanny’s
recital, 18, 102; Forster’s editing and