A Leaf from the Oldest of Books
7/6/1856
Unhappiness in the Elysian Fields
The Demeanour of Murderers
14/6/1856
The great sensation of the early summer of 1856 was the twelve-day trial at the Old Bailey of William Palmer, a Member of the Royal College of Surgeons, for poisoning John Cook, a racing chum with whom Palmer was financially involved.
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The Ninth of June [ii]
Chip: The Salt in the Sea
The World of Insects
The Chain
Laid Up in Two Lodgings [ii]: My London Lodging
A Tale of a Pocket Archipelago
Keeping the Peace
A Criminal Trial
21/6/1856
Chip: Red Rockets
The Ninth of June [iii]
Gold in Great Britain
Navvies As They Used To Be
Coast Folk [i]
See also 'Scotch Coast Folk', Household Words, XIII, No. 328; 'Scotch Coast Folk. Footdee in the Last Century', Household Words, XIV, No. 330; 'English Coast Folk', Household Words, XIV, No. 333.
Out of the Season
28/6/1856
Returning home to London ahead of the rest of the family, after their sojourn in Paris, Dickens stopped for three days (29 April-2 May) at the Ship Hotel in Dover, perhaps intending to make a start on the eighth monthly number of Little Dorrit.
The Mofussil
Chip: The Fairy Puff-Puff
The Omnibus Revolution
