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All the Year Round – 1859-1870 – a weekly magazine
![]() This was a weekly magazine founded by Charles Dickens when he fell out with Bradbury & Evans. It was published by Chapman & Hall and continued after Dickens’ death (in 1870) until 1895. Its original full title was All the Year Round, a weekly journal, conducted by Charles Dickens. It was owned by the author and his eldest son, Charles Dickens Jr, with a quarter owned by the editor/journalist William Henry Willis. Its first issue was 28 Jan 1959, and it created volumes that were a half-year, 26 issues, long. It went on to include A Tale of Two Cities (Jun 1859-Dec 1859), Great Expectations (Dec 1860-Aug 1861) and The Uncommercial Traveller (Jan 1850-13 Oct 1860, 1863-1865, 1868-1869). Other contributors included Edward Bulmer-Lytton, Wilkie Collins, Elizabeth Gaskell and Anthony Trollope. Dickens collaborated with other authors, notably he produced three short stories Mrs Limper’s Lodgings with five other authors including Elizabeth Gaskell, Mrs Limper’s Legacy and Doctor Marigold with others. ![]() All the Year Round included some stand-alone stories: – The Substance of the Shadow [and Dr Alexandre Manette’s Hidden Manuscript], Book Three, Chapter Ten of A Tale of Two Cities, No 27, 29 Oct 1859 in All the Year Round – The Haunted House, [The Mortals in the House, The Ghost in Master B’s Room, and The Ghost in the Corner Room] in the Christmas Number for All the Year Round, 1859 – A Message from the Sea, [The Village, The Money and The Restitution] in the Christmas Number for All the Year Round, 1860 – Tom Tiddler’s Ground, [Picking up Soot and Cinders, Picking up Miss Kimmeens, and Picking up the Tinker] in the Christmas Number for All the Year Round, 1861 – Somebody’s Luggage, [His leaving it till called for, His Boots, His Brown-paper Parcel and His Wonderful End] in the Christmas Number for All the Year Round, 1862 – Mrs Lirriper’s Lodgings, [How Mr Lirriper carried on the Business, and How the Parlour added a Few Words], in the Christmas Number of All the Year Round, 1863 – Mrs Lirriper’s Legacy, [Mrs Lirriper relates how she went on, and went over and Mrs Lirriper relates how Jemmy topped up], in the Christmas Number of All the Year Round, 1864) – Doctor Marigold’s Prescriptions, To be taken Immediately, To be taken with a Grain of Salt and To be taken for Life in the Christmas Number of All the Year Round, 1865 – Mugby Junction, [Barbox Brothers, Barbox Brothers and Co, Main Line: The Boy at Mugby, and No. 1 Branch Line: The Signal Man], in the Christmas Number for All the Year Round, 1866 – No Thoroughfare, in the Christmas Number for All the Year Round, 1867 |
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