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isolation fears and, 198, 202; location of,
172; repetition of dynamic, 26; story of,
17–18, 212–13; as trauma, 18–19, 68–73,
212–13; trust issues and, 29; walking by
CD attributed to, 174 –75, 177, 182. See
also autobiographical fragment
Bleak House: the feckless talker in, 42– 47;
houses and housekeeping in, 128,
142– 43, 146 –50, 172–73; intricate maze
of rooms in, 148– 49; parody in, 39;
police in, 52; sound and hearing in, 184;
spontaneous combustion in, 9, 10; streets
and walking in, 170, 173, 195–97; writ-
ing of, 145, 180
Book of Memoranda, 21
Bowen, John, 209
Boyle, Mary, 93, 158
Bradbury and Evans (publisher), 62
Bradbury, William, 26
Brannon, Robert Louis, 215
“The Bride’s Chamber” (Dickens and
Collins), 159– 60
Browne, Hablot, 42– 43
Brown, Mrs. Hannah, 90 –91
Buckton, Oliver, 216
Bulwer-Lytton, Edward, 95, 111, 134
Burgis, Nina, 212
Burnett, Fanny (sister), 17, 18, 62, 102
Buzard, James, 219
cannibalism, 114, 194
capital punishment, 106 –7, 187
Carey, John, 211, 216 –17
Carlisle, Janice, 211
Caruth, Cathy, 69, 72
Cerjat, W. F. de, 58, 151, 155
Certeau, Michel de, 173–74, 219
Chapman, Jonathan, 27–28
Chapman and Hall, 25, 126
characters: dialogue revealing, 20, 22–23;
dissociated, 45– 46; inhabiting from the
inside, 20 –23; method of Eliot vs. CD, 4,
5; parody and, 36; splitting of, 6, 78
Chesterton, G. K., 174 –75, 219, 220
Chesterton, G. L., 137, 138
children: abandoned, in Dombey and Son,
132–33; daughters of CD, preference for,
130, 132, 151–52, 163, 164; Skimpole
and, 45– 46; sons of CD, 62, 92, 131, 132,
152–53, 164, 203; as spectacle, 70 –71; as
victims in abandonment of Catherine,
162; as workers, 62– 67. See also blacking
factory
The Chimes: bells and, 185–86; child work-
ers and, 63; and reform, 67– 68; writing
of, 181
Christmas Books: bells and, 185–86; child
workers and, 63 – 64; interior knowledge
in, 12; memory and, 66 – 68; writing of, 181
A Christmas Carol: child workers and, 63– 64;
interior knowledge in, 12; memory and,
65, 66
Christmas Stories, 113, 128, 166 – 69, 202
“A Christmas Tree,” 80
“City of London Churches,” 191
“The City of the Absent,” 191
Clarke, Mary, 93
class: ambivalance toward, 207–8; blacking
warehouse work and, 18, 19; Dorrit and
slights to status of, 49–50; male friend-
ships and, 92, 93, 98; marriage views of
CD and, 92
Colburn, Eliza, 94, 112
Colden, David, 199
collaboration: with Collins, 113–18,
166 – 67; in Household Words (frame
stories), 128
Collins, Charles, 164
Collins, Philip, 138, 212, 217, 220
Collins, Wilkie: biographical sketch written
for, 60, 92; correspondence with, 165;
and Forster friendship with CD, 84, 111,
112–13, 151; relationship with CD, 94,
111–18, 121, 166 – 67, 179, 215; writing
by, CD on, 22
comic-parodic style, 34 –35
Compton, Henry, 146
Connor, Steven, 106, 183–84
Conrad, Joseph, 190
copyright, 27–29
Cornelius, Anne, 158
Cornhill Magazine, 189
Coutts, Angela Burdett-: abandonment of
Catherine and, 59, 135, 161– 62; advice
on refurbishing her house, 153–54; cor-
respondence with, 92, 145, 151, 155, 180;
education and training of CD’s elder
sons, 92, 135, 153, 164; Home for Home-
less Women and, 53, 135– 40, 150
Cranstone, Frances, 141
Crowe, Catherine, 10, 12
Currie, Richard, 211–12Daily News, 26, 62, 94
Dallas, E. S., 8
Dames, Nicholas, 209
Darby, Margaret Flanders, 209, 213blacking factory (continued)