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Early in the winter of 1841 it had been announced that Charles Dickens would ... having read all he had written, and sharing largely in the general enthusiasm for the author and his works, I ...

Household Words was an unillustrated weekly magazine conducted and edited by Charles ... Dickens from late March 1850 through May 1859. It was issued weekly, but also monthly and as bound annual ...

He died on Christmas Eve seven years before the book is set. He also believed ... for the five lines on which musical notes are written, so Dickens called his chapters ‘staves’ to link in ...