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Authors Charles Dickens
Henry Morley
Genres Cross-genre i
Prose: Digest; Review i
Prose: Leading Article i
Prose: Short Fiction i
Subjects Education—Europe; Universities and Colleges; Schools
Education—Great Britain; Universities and Colleges; Schools
National Characteristics; Nationalism
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Dickens probably wrote the following portions of 'Mr. Bendigo Buster on Our National Defences Against Education': from 'Whereas, go into any' to 'I call it Prussian' (p. 314); the paragraph beginning 'Here's a pretty coil' (p. 317); the paragraph beginning 'It is the same' (p. 318).
Dickens may also have retouched or added to the following sections: from the opening to 'with a will' (p. 313); from 'but I consider pauperism' to 'knock 'em down' (p. 314); from 'What I say of a boy' to 'that's the jockey to manage children!' (p. 315); the paragraph beginning 'That's the machine' (p. 316); from 'I say no more' (p. 318) to the conclusion.
In addition, Dickens seems to have emended many other passages.
Of this piece Dickens wrote to Wills on 12 December 1850: 'This proof of Morley's, when corrected, will require to be very carefully looked to. I had better go over it myself. I can't make out whether he means Mr. Buster to be actually a prize-fighter, or a person in the position of a gentleman with prizefighting tastes. I have adopted the latter hypothesis, as involving less inconsistency and incongruity.' It is not clear whether Dickens had already made alterations in the article and wished new proof, or whether he was referring to revisions he contemplated making. In any case, a subsequent letter to Wills written that afternoon seems to indicate that he reworked the article later that day. The second letter [...] now in the Huntington Library, states that he was sending the altered paper directly on to Wills' home.
'Bendigo' was the nickname of William Thompson, a famous pugilist who achieved his most notable victories in 1850.

Harry Stone; © Bloomington and Indiana University Press, 1968. DJO gratefully acknowledges permission to reproduce this material.


Mostly from Joseph Kay, The Social Condition and Education of the People in England and Europe (1850).

See also 'Mr. Bendigo Buster on the Model Cottages', Household Words, III, No. 67.

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Authors Christopher Hill
W[illiam] H[enry] Wills
Genre Prose: Sketch i
Subjects Commercial Products (Commodities); Material Culture; Shopping; Advertising
Railroads
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Author Richard H. Horne
Genre Prose: Snippet i
Subjects Food; Cooking; Gastronomy; Alcohol; Bars (Drinking Establishments); Restaurants; Dinners and Dining
Great Britain—Armed Forces; Militias
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Authors Charles Strange
W[illiam] H[enry] Wills
Genre Prose: Snippet i
Subjects Food; Cooking; Gastronomy; Alcohol; Bars (Drinking Establishments); Restaurants; Dinners and Dining
Public Health; Sanitation; Water
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Genre Prose: Letters; Correspondence i
Subjects Accidents; Accident Victims—Fiction; Fires; Search and Rescue Operations; Natural Disasters; Disasters; Disaster Relief
Energy; Fuel; Gas; Coal; Peat
Industries; Industrial Revolution—Great Britain; Industrialization; Industrial Safety; Industrial Laws and Legislation; Industrial Welfare; Industrial Relations;
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New Year's Eve

28/12/1850

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Author George Meredith
Genre Poetry: Occasional (Christmas, &c.) i
Subject Christmas; New Year; Holidays and Seasonal Celebrations
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Author Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Genre Prose: Short Fiction i
Subjects Education—Great Britain; Universities and Colleges; Schools
Ethics; Morals; Moral Development; Moral Education; Philosophy; Values
Great Britain—Social Conditions—Nineteenth Century
Marriage; Courtship; Love; Sex
Religion; Religion and Culture
Religion—Christianity—General
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The Chords of Love

28/12/1850

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Author Mr. [?] Harper
Genre Poetry: Lyric i
Subjects Death; Grief; Mourning; Mourning Customs in Literature; Funeral Rites and Ceremonies; Life Cycle, Human; Old Age; Mortality
Marriage; Courtship; Love; Sex
Religion; Religion and Culture
Religion—Christianity—General
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Author Henry Morley
Genre Prose: Short Fiction i
Subjects Public Health; Sanitation; Water
Supernatural; Superstition; Spiritualism; Clairvoyance; Mesmerism; Ghosts; Fairies; Witches; Magic; Occultism
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28/12/1850

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Genre Advertisement(s) i
Subject Newspapers; Periodicals; Journalism
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