NOTEN
1. There is some confusion as to exactly
what age Dickens started work as a
reporter. Forster's Life says he was
nineteen, other biographers have
suggested he was as young as
seventeen. Cf. G.C.Grubb, 'Dickens'
First Experiences as a Parliamentary
Reporter', Dickensian 36 (1939-40), 211-18
2. F.J. Harvey Darton, 'Dickens the
Beginner: 1833-1836', Quarterly Review,
262 (1934), 61
3.i.Parliamentary reporting, 1831-1835;
ii. Editing Bentley's Miscellany, 1835-
1839; iii. Editing Master Humphrey's
Clock, 1839-1841; iv. Editing Daily News,
1846; v. Founding and editing Household
Words, 1849-59; vi. Editing All The Year
Round, 1859 to his death
4. H. Stone (ed.), The Uncollected
Writings of Charles Dickens: Household
Words 1850- 1859. (Allen Lane, London
1969. 2 vols.), i.27
5. Letter to Kuenzel, 1838; M. House
and G. Storey (eds), The Letters of
Charles Dickens (Pilgrim Edition, Oxford
1965) i. 423
6. F. Kaplan, Dickens: A Biography
(Hodder and Staunton, London 1988),
50
7. Grubb suggests that Dickens stopped
working for the True Sun long before
1834. Grubb, 218
8. KJ.Fielding (ed.), The Spectacles of
Charles Dickens, (Oxford 1960), 344
9. Stone, i. 6-7
10. Letter to J. Forster, 14 July 1839;
Letters, i. 546
11. Letter to W. Shoberl, 29 August
1841; Letters, ii. 372
12. Letter to Forster, July 1845; Letters,
iv. 327-8
13. Letter to Evans, 26 February 1846;
Letters, iv. 505
14. Letter to Forster, 22 November 1845;
Letters, iv.?
15. Stone, 27
16. Letter to Forster; Letters, v. 622
17. Cf. Trollope's Autobiography, ch. 12
18. D. Alexander, 'Dickens and the
False True Story', Dickensian, 86 (1990),
88
19. Cf. N. Philip and V. Neuburg (eds.),
Charles Dickens: A December Vision. His
Social Journalism (London 1986)
20. P. Ackroyd, Dickens (London 1990),
477
21. He wrote of the Daily News that it
would be "devoted to the advocacy of
all rational and honest means by which
wrong might be redressed, just right
maintained, and the happiness and
welfare of society promoted"
22. T. Wolfe, The New Journalism (New
York 1973), 5
23. Speech to the Newspaper Press
Fund, 20 May 1865; Speeches, 347
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