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Ghostly Pantomimes

24/12/1853

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Author Edmund Ollier
Genres Cross-genre i
Prose: History i
Prose: Report i
Prose: Short Fiction i
Subjects Great Britain—History
Historiography; Archaeology; Genealogy; Archives
Theatre; Performing Arts; Performing; Dance; Playwriting; Circus
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Holidays

24/12/1853

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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 George Dodd
Genre Prose: Essay i
Subject Music; Musical Instruments; Songs; Singing; Opera
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Our Wine Merchant

24/12/1853

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Author Dudley Costello
Genre Prose: Digest; Review i
Subjects Commercial Products (Commodities); Material Culture; Shopping; Advertising
Food; Cooking; Gastronomy; Alcohol; Bars (Drinking Establishments); Restaurants; Dinners and Dining
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Based on an advertising pamphlet.

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An Ugly Nursling

24/12/1853

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Author Henry Morley
Genres Cross-genre i
Prose: Essay i
Prose: Short Fiction i
Subjects Health; Diseases; Personal Injuries; Hygiene; Cleanliness—Fiction
Life Sciences (Physiology / Biology / Immunology / Medicine / Pharmacology / Anatomy / Ecology)
Medical care; Nursing; Hospitals; Hospital Care; Surgery; Medicine; Physicians
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The Long Voyage

31/12/1853

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Author Charles Dickens
Genres Prose: Essay i
Prose: History i
Prose: Leading Article i
Subjects Historiography; Archaeology; Genealogy; Archives
Progress; Memory; Commemoration; Nostaliga; Time—Social Aspects; Time—Psychological Aspects; Time perception;
Ships; Boats; Shipwrecks; Salvage; Merchant Marine; Sailors; Sailing; Submarines (Ships)
Travel; Tourism; Hotels; Resorts; Seaside Resorts—Fiction; Passports;
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Forster records (Book 6, Chapter 3) that in the summer of 1848 Dickens was reading a 'surprising number of books of African and other travel for which he had an insatiable relish' and many of these are recalled in the following piece.

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Iron Incidents

31/12/1853

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Author John Capper
Genre Prose: Report i
Subject Railroads
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Author Eustace Clare Grenville Murray
Genre Prose: Travel-writing i
Subjects Animals; Domestic Animals; Pets; Working Animals; Birds; Insects
Christmas; New Year; Holidays and Seasonal Celebrations
Greece—Description and Travel
Greece—Social Life and Customs
Religion; Religion and Culture
Religion—Christianity—General
Religion—Christianity—Orthodox Eastern Church
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New Year's Eve

31/12/1853

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Author Edmund Ollier
Genre Poetry: Occasional (Christmas, &c.) i
Subject Christmas; New Year; Holidays and Seasonal Celebrations
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Author Reverend James White
Genre Prose: Short Fiction i
Subjects Health; Diseases; Personal Injuries; Hygiene; Cleanliness—Fiction
Social classes; Class distinctions; Aristocracy (Social Class); Aristocracy (Social Class)—Fiction; Middle Class; Working Class; Servants;
Supernatural; Superstition; Spiritualism; Clairvoyance; Mesmerism; Ghosts; Fairies; Witches; Magic; Occultism
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Tucked Up

31/12/1853

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Author Richard Cattermole
Genre Prose: Essay i
Subjects Dreams; Visions; Sleep
Family Life; Families; Domestic Relations; Sibling Relations; Kinship; Home;
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Author Henry Morley
Genre Prose: Letters; Correspondence i
Subject Ships; Boats; Shipwrecks; Salvage; Merchant Marine; Sailors; Sailing; Submarines (Ships)
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Author Henry Morley
Genre Prose: Digest; Review i
Subjects Animals; Domestic Animals; Pets; Working Animals; Birds; Insects
Crimean War, 1853-1856
War; Battles; Peace; Military History; Weapons; Soldiers
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Based largely on Lewis E. Nolan, Cavalry; Its History and Tactics (1853).

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Amy, the Child

31/12/1853

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Author [?] Townsend
Genre Prose: Short Fiction i
Subjects Children; Childhood; Pregnancy; Childbirth; Child Rearing; Adoption; Child Labor
Ethics; Morals; Moral Development; Moral Education; Philosophy; Values
Health; Diseases; Personal Injuries; Hygiene; Cleanliness—Fiction
Religion; Religion and Culture
Religion—Christianity—General
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Authors Charles Dickens
Eustace Clare Grenville Murray
Genres Prose: Essay i
Prose: Leading Article i
Subjects Bureaucracy; Civil Service
International relations; International trade; Diplomacy;
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Dickens' chief contribution to 'On Her Majesty's Service' seems to have been editorial: cutting, emending, and interpolating. His hand seems most evident in the following sections: the paragraph beginning 'We are essentially a commercial people' (p. 435); the paragraph beginning 'Are you, therefore, a cousin' (p. 437); the concluding paragraph.
Dickens' hand seems more intermittently evident in the following sections: from the beginning to 'chink of money!' (p. 434); in the more sardonic phrasings toward the end.
Sir Hector Stubble, the ambassador depicted in this article, is Murray's malicious caricature of Sir Stratford Canning (1786-1880), one of the best-known diplomatists of the era. In 1852, while Canning was serving in Constantinople as ambassador to Turkey, Murray was appointed fifth paid attaché to the embassy. The two men did not get on, and Canning banished Murray to Mitylene. Dickens apparently was unaware of the caricature, but it was widely recognized and gleefully called to Canning's attention. Canning was furious and sought to destroy Murray's diplomatic career.
Most of Murray's Household Words pieces appeared under the general heading 'The Roving Englishman.' Between 1851 and 1856 Murray collected many of these pieces in a succession of five books. The second of these books, The Roving Englishman in Turkey (1855), contained, in a chapter entitled 'Our Embassy,' a heavily revised, much expanded, and relentlessly particularized version of 'On Her Majesty's Service.' In 1877 The Roving Englishman in Turkey was republished with many additional changes as Turkey: Being Sketches from Life by The Roving Englishman. In the latter version, Dahomey becomes Turkey - or more specifically, Constantinople - Sir Charles Grandison becomes Lord Palmerston, Timbuctoo becomes Vienna, and Sir Hector Stubble (though still retaining his pseudonym) becomes larger and grimmer than ever. In the 1877 version, Murray also added the following comments about his earlier portrait of Sir Hector: 'It is now nearly a quarter of a century since these lines were first penned, and one of those who wrote them, after pausing long to reflect whether he could upon his honour and conscience answer to God and to man, if he deliberately edited them for republication, can only express his regret that the sombre picture then drawn of Sir Hector Stubble was not painted in colours dark enough to give a just resemblance of him.'
The republished versions of 'On Her Majesty's Service' have been consulted in making the ascriptions set forth in the first two paragraphs above.

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

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Author William Moy Thomas
Genre Prose: Short Fiction i
Subjects Crime; Criminals; Punishment; Capital Punishment; Prisons; Penal Transportation; Penal Colonies
Religion; Religion and Culture
Religion—Christianity—Church of England
Religion—Christianity—General
Supernatural; Superstition; Spiritualism; Clairvoyance; Mesmerism; Ghosts; Fairies; Witches; Magic; Occultism
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Author William Delafield Arnold
Genre Prose: Autobiography; Biography; Memoirs; Obituary; Anecdotes i
Subjects India—Description and Travel
Railroads
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Off! Off!

7/1/1854

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Author Charles Whitehead
Genre Prose: Essay i
Subjects Newspapers; Periodicals; Journalism
Theatre; Performing Arts; Performing; Dance; Playwriting; Circus
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The Bells

7/1/1854

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Author Mrs [?] MacIntosh
Genre Poetry: Narrative i
Subjects Progress; Memory; Commemoration; Nostaliga; Time—Social Aspects; Time—Psychological Aspects; Time perception;
Religion; Religion and Culture
Religion—Christianity—General
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Mighty Hunters

7/1/1854

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Author Samuel Sidney
Genre Prose: Digest; Review i
Subjects Animals; Domestic Animals; Pets; Working Animals; Birds; Insects
Sports; Games; Leisure; Pleasure; Hunting; Horse Racing; Gambling; Duelling
Travel; Tourism; Hotels; Resorts; Seaside Resorts—Fiction; Passports;
United States—Description and Travel
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Based largely on John Palliser, Solitary Rambles and Adventures of a Hunter in the Prairies (1853).


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