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We aspire to live in the Household affections, and to be numbered among the Household thoughts, of our readers. We hope to be the comrade and friend of many thousands of people, of both sexes, and of all ages and conditions, on whose faces we may never look. We seek to bring to innumerable homes,
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from the stirring world around us, the knowledge of many social wonders, good and evil, that are not calculated to render any of us less ardently persevering in ourselves, less faithful in the progress of mankind, less thankful for the privilege of living in this summer-dawn of time.
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Theoretically, the paper championed the cause of the poor and working classes, but in fact it addressed itself almost exclusively to the middle class. Only the name of Dickens, the journal's "conductor", appeared; articles were unsigned (although authors of
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was appointed sub-editor at a salary of "five guineas a week". In 1859, however, owing to a dispute between Dickens and the publishers Bradbury and Evans over their refusal to print his "personal statement" regarding his divorce in their other magazine,
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Dickens also collaborated with other staff writers on a number of Christmas stories and plays for seasonal issues of the magazine. These included:
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The journal contained a mixture of fiction and nonfiction. A large amount of the non-fiction dealt with the social issues of the time.
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Memories of Charles Dickens, with an account of "Household words" and "All the year round" and of the contributors thereto
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was compiled in 1973 by Anne Lohrli, using an analysis of the office account book maintained by Dickens's subeditor,
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novels were identified) and, in spite of its regularly featuring an "advertiser", the paper was unillustrated.
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The farthing poet : a biography of Richard Hengist Horne, 1802–84; a lesser literary lion
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was published every Saturday from March 1850 to May 1859. Each number cost a mere
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A longer version of the publication's principles appeared in newspapers such as
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see also 'Household Words', Faculty of English Library, Cambridge University.
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During the planning stages, titles originally considered by Dickens included
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in the Extra Christmas Number (15 December 1855) with Wilkie Collins,
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in the Extra Christmas Number (14 December 1854) with Wilkie Collins,
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in the Extra Christmas Number (6 December 1856) with Wilkie Collins,
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in the Extra Christmas Number (7 December 1857) with Wilkie Collins
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The Life of Charles Dickens: His Life, Writings, and Personality
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Household Words, A Weekly Journal conducted by Charles Dickens
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English weekly magazine edited by Charles Dickens in the 1850s
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Defunct literary magazines published in the United Kingdom
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To boost slumping sales Dickens serialised his own novel,
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That Dickens owned half of the company and his agents,
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A complete key to who wrote what and for how much in
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Index


Charles Dickens
All the Year Round
Charles Dickens
Shakespeare
Henry V
tuppence
The Argus
serialised
Hard Times
John Forster
William Henry Wills
Richard Henry Horne
Punch
All the Year Round
A Child's History of England
Charles Dickens
Cranford
North and South
My Lady Ludlow
Elizabeth Gaskell
The Song of the Western Men
Robert Stephen Hawker
The Dead Secret
A Rogue's Life
Wilkie Collins
Eliza Lynn Linton
Adelaide Anne Procter
George Augustus Henry Sala
William Howitt

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