24. Ackroyd, 155
25. Wolfe, 9. The ellipsis is in the
original text.
26. Wolfe, 'Preface'
27. Ackroyd, 587
28. For the conflict between the
tradition of anonymity in periodicals on
the one hand, and the newer habit of
identifying contributors on the other,
see John Woolford's 'Periodicals and
the Practice of Literary Criticism in the
Nineteenth Century', in J. Shattock and
M. Wolf (eds.), The Victorian Periodical
Press: Samplings and Soundings (Leicester
University Press 1982), 109-142
29. Wiseman, Essays on Various Subjects
(1853), i.v
30. Quoted in Ackroyd, 593
31. Stone, 15
32. Fitzgerald, Memories of Charles
Dickens (Bristol 1913), 123
33. Household Words v (1852), 5. The
author is identified by A. Lohrli,
Household Words (University of Toronto
Press 1973)
34. Letter to C.E.Morton, 9 March 1859;
J.A.V. Chappie and A.Pollard, Letters of
Elizabeth Gaskell (London 1966), 538
35. Household Words v (1852), 45-8
36. Quoted in Lohrli, 10
37. L. James, 'The Trouble with Betsy:
Periodicals and the Common Reader in
Mid-Nineteenth-Century England', in
Shattock and Wolf, The Victorian
Periodical Press, 349
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