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Collaborative Dickens
Series in Victorian Studies
Series editors: Joseph McLaughlin and Elizabeth Carolyn Miller
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Melisa Klimaszewski, Collaborative Dickens: Authorship and Victorian Christmas Periodicals
COLLABORATIVE DICKENS
Authorship and Victorian Christmas Periodicals
Melisa Klimaszewski
OHIO UNIVERSITY PRESS
ATHENS
Ohio University Press, Athens, Ohio 45701
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Klimaszewski, Melisa, author.
Title: Collaborative Dickens : authorship and Victorian Christmas periodicals / Melisa Klimaszewski.
Description: Athens : Ohio University Press, [2019] | Series: Series in Victorian studies | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2019004319| ISBN 9780821423653 (hc : alk. paper) | ISBN 9780821446737 (pdf)
Subjects: LCSH: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870--Authorship--Collaboration. | Christmas stories, English--History and criticism.
Classification: LCC PR4586 .K55 2019 | DDC 823/.8--dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019004319
This book is dedicated lovingly to Rose Cuschieri, Adam Klimaszewski, and Daniel Klimaszewski for their unwavering support, compassion, and encouragement through countless stumbles.
~Inħobbok ħafna
Contents
1. Writing Christmas with “a Bunch of People” (1850–51)
2. Reading in Circles: From Numbers to Rounds (1852–53)
3. Orderly Travels and Generic Developments (1854–55)
4. Collaborative Survival and Voices Abroad (1856–57)
5. Moving Houses and Unsettling Stories (1858–59)
6. Disconnected Bodies and Troubled Textuality (1860–62)
7. Bundling Children and Binding Legacies (1863–65)
Appendix A. The Complete Christmas Numbers: Contents and Contributors
Appendix B. Authorship Percentage Charts
Illustrations
Figure I.1. Household Words Office Book
Figure I.2. Household Words Office Book side view
Figure I.3. Page from Household Words Office Book
Figure 5.1. The Haunted House, page 8
