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Miniature Portrait at 18 years old, by Mrs Janet Barrow (an aunt)
His Major Works
- Sketches by Boz (short story collection 1836)
- The Pickwick Papers (serialised monthly Mar 1836 – Oct 1837)
- Oliver Twist (serialised monthly Feb 1837 – Apr 1839)
- Nicholas Nickleby (serialised monthly Apr 1838 – Oct 1839)
- The Old Curiosity Shop (serialised weekly Apr 1840 – Feb 1841)
- Barnaby Rudge (serialised weekly Feb – Nov 1841)
- Martin Chuzzlewit (serialised monthly Jan 1843 – Jul 1844)
- Dombey and Son (serialised monthly Oct 1846 – Apr 1848)
- David Copperfield (serialised monthly May 1849- Nov 1850)
- Bleak House (serialised monthly Mar 1852 – Sep 1853)
- Hard Times (serialised weekly Apr – Aug 1854)
- Little Dorrit (serialised monthly Dec 1855 – Jun 1857)
- A Tale of Two Cities (serialised weekly Apr – Nov 1859)
- Great Expectations (serialised weekly Dec 1860 – Aug 1861)
- Our Mutual Friend (serialised monthly May 1864 – Nov 1865)
- The Mystery of Edwin Drood – unfinished (serialised monthly Apr-Sep 1870)
Dickens in 1842, age 30
His Minor Works
- A Dinner at Poplar Walk (1833) – later renamed as Mr Minns…
- The Bloomsbury Christening (1834) – a short story
- The Black Veil (1836) – a short story
- Sunday under Three Heads (1836) – a political tract
- The Mudfog Papers (1837-1838) – a short story collection
- The Lamplighter (1838) – a short story
- Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi (1838) – a biography
- Sketches of Young Gentlemen (1838) – a series of sketches
- Sketches of Young Couples (1840) – a series of sketches
- American Notes (1843) – sketches of American trip
- Pictures from Italy (1846) – sketches of Italian stay
- To be Read at Dusk (1846) – a short story
- The Life of Our Lord (1846-1849)
- A Child’s Dream of a Star (1850) – a short story
- Captain Murderer (1850) – a short story
- A Flight (1851) – a short story
- A Child’s History of England (serialised weekly Jan 1851 – Dec 1853) – history
- The Long Voyage (1853) – a short story
- Pearl Fishing, I and II (1854) – a collection of short stories
- Prince Bull (1855) – a short fairy story
- The Thousand and One Humbugs (1855) – short stories
- Boots at the Holly-tree Inn (1858) – a short story
- Going into Society (1858) – a short story
- Hunted Down (1859) – a short story
- The Haunted House (1859) – a ghost story
- Reprinted Pieces (1858) – a short story collection
- The Uncommercial Traveller (1861)- a collection of sketches
- Mrs Lirriper’s Lodging (1863) – a short story
- Mrs Lirriper’s Legacy (1864) – a short story
- Doctor Marigold’s Prescriptions (1865) – a short story
- Trial for Murder (1865 collaboration) aka To Be Taken with a Grain of Salt – a short story
- The Signal-Man (1866) – a short story
- No Thoroughfare (1867) – with Wilkie Collins – a short story
- George Silverman’s Explanation (1868) – a short story
- Holiday Romance (1868) – a short story
Dickens in 1852, aged 40
His Christmas Books
- A Christmas Carol (1843)
- The Chimes, a Goblin Story (1844)
- The Cricket on the Hearth: a Fairy Tale of Home (1845)
- The Battle of Life (1846)
- The Haunted Man and the Ghost’s Bargain (1848)
- A Christmas Tree (1850)
- What Christmas is, as We Grow Older (1851)
- The Poor Relation’s Story (1852)
- The Child’s Story (1852)
- The Schoolboy’s Story (1853)
- Nobody’s Story (1853)
- The Seven Poor Travellers (1854 collaboration)
- The Wreck of the Golden Mary (1856; collaboration)
- The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices (1857)
- The Perils of Certain English Prisoners (1857; collaboration)
- A Message from the Sea (1860; collaboration)
- Tom Tiddler’s Ground (1861; collaboration)
- Somebody’s Luggage (1862)
- Mugby Junction (1866 collaboration)
Dickens in 1861, nearly 50
His Poems
- See also The Village Coquettes (1836)
- See also The Pickwick Papers (1837)
- See also The Lamplighter (1838)
- The Fine Old English Gentleman (1841) – a poem in The Examiner
- The Quack Doctor’s Proclamation (1841) – a poem in The Examiner
- Subjects for Painters (1841) -a poem in The Examiner
- The Patrician’s Daughter (1842)
- The Keepsake (1844)
- The British Lion (1846) – poem in the Daily News
- The Hymn of the Wiltshire Labourers (1846) – a poem in the Daily News
- The Lighthouse (1855)
- See also The Frozen Deep (1856)
- See also The Wreck of the Golden Mary (1856)
His Magazines
- Master Humphrey’s Clock (1840-1841)
- Household Words (1850-1859)
- All the Year Round (1859-1870)
His Dramatic Productions:
- The Strange Gentleman (1836)
- The Village Coquettes (1836)
- Is She his Wife? (1837)
- The Frozen Deep (1857)
- Mr Nightingale’s Diary (1851/1877)
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