Dickens Resources

Major Resources for Dickens/ Victorian London

• Victorian Web
• The Life of Charles Dickens (Forster) – Project Gutenberg
• The Dickens Project
• The Letters of Charles Dickens V. 1 (1833-1856)
• The Londonist – Dickens novels mapped
• The Charles Dickens Letter Project
• The Proceedings of the Old Bailey
• Punch (Google – 1850)
• Punch (HathiTrust)

Oliver Twist Materials

• Bentley’s Miscellany from 1837
• London Quarterly Review, containing a review of Oliver Twist in the June 1839 issue
• The Spectator, Nov. 24 1838. (Review of Oliver Twist pg. 14)
• The Monthly Review, containing a review of Oliver Twist, Jan. 1839

David Copperfield

• Mathew Arnold The Incompatibles (Discussion of DC starts on pg 9)
• Columbia U. Site with links to Victorian reviews of David Copperfield
• David Copperfield pages on the Victorian Web

Bleak House

• Bleak House at the British Library

Hard Times

• Household Words (HathiTrust)

British Library items of interest

• A manuscript page from Oliver Twist
• Oliver Twist and the Workhouse
• Dickens on Capital Punishment
• Cruikshank – The Drunkard’s Children