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Railway Dreaming

10/5/1856

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Author Charles Dickens
Genres Prose: Leading Article i
Prose: Travel-writing i
Subjects Dreams; Visions; Sleep
France—Description and Travel
France—Politics and Government
France—Social Life and Customs
Railroads
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Dickens had not intended writing anything else for HW quite so soon after the previous article but he was, he wrote to Wills from Paris on 24 April, 'so very much disheartened' by the 26 April number of the journal ('a mere hash-up of most indifferent magazine papers at chance-medley [i.e. collected together in a random fashion]') that he determined to 'go to work again' and write another article for the issue to follow the one in which 'proposals' appeared (see Pilgrim, Vol. VIII, p. 98).

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Black Thursday

10/5/1856

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Author William Howitt
Genre Prose: Short Fiction i
Subjects Accidents; Accident Victims—Fiction; Fires; Search and Rescue Operations; Natural Disasters; Disasters; Disaster Relief
Australia—Description and Travel; New Zealand—Description and Travel
Marriage; Courtship; Love; Sex
People with Disabilities; Human Body—Social Aspects; Human Bodies in Literature
Weather; Meteorology; Climate; Seasons
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Author Henry Morley
Genres Cross-genre i
Prose: Letters; Correspondence i
Prose: Short Fiction i
Subject Bureaucracy; Civil Service
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Epidemics

10/5/1856

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Author Eliza Lynn Linton
Genre Prose: Digest; Review i
Subjects Health; Diseases; Personal Injuries; Hygiene; Cleanliness—Fiction
Public Health; Sanitation; Water
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Based on Southwood Smith, Epidemics Considered with Relation to Their Common Nature (1856).

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Dawn

10/5/1856

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Author Unknown
Genre Poetry: Narrative i
Subjects Death; Grief; Mourning; Mourning Customs in Literature; Funeral Rites and Ceremonies; Life Cycle, Human; Old Age; Mortality
Ethics; Morals; Moral Development; Moral Education; Philosophy; Values
Religion; Religion and Culture
Religion—Christianity—General
Work; Work and Family; Occupations; Professions; Wages
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Author William Duthie
Genre Prose: Travel-writing i
Subjects Germany—Description and Travel; Austria—Description and Travel
Germany—Social Life and Customs; Austria—Social Life and Customs
Religion; Religion and Culture
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Mr. Rowlands

10/5/1856

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Author Reverend James White
Genre Prose: Short Fiction i
Subjects Dreams; Visions; Sleep
Ethics; Morals; Moral Development; Moral Education; Philosophy; Values
Poverty; Poor Laws—Great Britain; Workhouses—Great Britain
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