The Dickens Society

Volume 28, Number  4

GUEST EDITORIAL

Marie-Amélie Coste, Christine Huguet and Nathalie Vanfasse 247

ARTICLES

Lillian Nayder: “The Omission of His Only Sister’s Name”: Letitia Austin and the Legacies of Charles Dickens 251

Neil Davie: History Artfully Dodged? Crime, Prisons and the Legacy of “Dickens’s England” 261

Michael Hollington: Dickens, Sala and the London Arcade  273

REVIEWS

Margaret Flanders Darby on Lillian Nayder: The Other Dickens: A Life of Catherine Dickens 285

Phoebe Poon on John Jordan: Supposing Bleak House  289

Joel J. Brattin on Patricia Ingham, ed. : Bleak House 292

Andrew Mangham on Karen Chase: The Victorians and Old Age  295

Goldie Morgentaler on Deborah Wynne: Women and Personal Property in the Victorian Novel  298

Trey Philpotts: Recent Publications of Interest 301

THE FORTY-SECOND DICKENS SOCIETY MEETING AND BUSINESS 304

Christine Huguet: Dickensians in France: Cerisy 307

NOTICES  309

THE DICKENS CHECKLIST – Elizabeth Bridgham  316

NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS 322

Dickens Quarterly is produced for the Dickens Society with assistance from the

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College of General Studies, Boston University.

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The Dickens Society’s seventeenth annual symposium, business meeting and dinner will be held at the University of Kent, Canterbury on the 13th through the 15th of September 2012. Delegates will have the choice of on-campus housing or hotel accommodation in the city of Canterbury.

Paper proposals on any aspect of Dickens and his works are invited. Final papers should be readable in twenty minutes. Please send one-page proposals electronically, by attachment, to Malcolm Andrews at <m.y.andrews@kent.ac.uk> David Paroissien <paroissien@english.umass.edu> and Cathy Waters <c.waters@kent.ac.uk> no later than March 31, 2012. Details about accommodation, travel and other pertinent information will be made available in due course at the Dickens Quarterly website < http://WWW.dickensquarterly.org> Scholars at all stages of their career are encouraged to submit proposals, and graduate students may register at a reduced fee.

The Dickens Society’s seventeenth annual symposium, business meeting and dinner will be held at the University of Kent, Canterbury on the 13th through the 15th of September 2012. Delegates will have the choice of on-campus housing or hotel accommodation in the city of Canterbury.

Paper proposals on any aspect of Dickens and his works are invited. Final papers should be readable in twenty minutes. Please send one-page proposals electronically, by attachment, to Malcolm Andrews at m.y.andrews@kent.ac.uk David Paroissien paroissien@english.umass.edu and Cathy Waters c.waters@kent.ac.uk no later than March 31, 2012. Details about accommodation, travel and other pertinent information will be made available in due course at the Dickens Quarterly website < http://WWW.dickensquarterly.org> Scholars at all stages of their career are encouraged to submit proposals, and graduate students may register at a reduced fee.