DICKENS QUARTERLY
JUNE 2008
VOLUME 25 NUMBER 2

ARTICLES
Rodney Stenning Edgecombe: The Heroine of Quiet Service in Dombey and Son 73
Deborah A. Thomas: "Don't Let the Bastards Grind You Down": Echoes of Hard Times in The Handmaid's Tale 90
I. C. McManus: Charles Dickens: A Neglected Diagnosis 98
Robert Garnett: The Mysterious Mourner: Dickens's Funeral and Ellen Ternan 107

REVIEWS
Matthew Rubery on Rosemarie Bodenheimer: Knowing Dickens 118
Mark Hennelly on Elaine Freedgood: The Idea in Things: Fugitive Meaning in the Victorian Novel 121
David Paroissien on Alison Case and Harry E. Shaw: Reading the Nineteenth-Century Novel; on George Levine: How to Read the Victorian Novel; on Dinah Birch: Our Victorian Education 124
Robert J. Heaman on Gareth Cordery: An Edwardian's View of Dickens and His Illustrators: Harry Furniss's "A Sketch by Boz" 128

ANNOUNCEMENTS 130

THE DICKENS CHECKLIST - Eliabeth Bridgham 136

NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS 140

Dickens Quarterly is produced for the Dickens Society with assistance from the English Departments of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and the College of General Studies, Boston University.
Printed in Northampton, Massachusetts by Tiger Press.

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Copyright 2008 by the Dickens Society

TRANSPORT IN AND AROUND LONDON
DICKENS SOCIETY SYMPOSIUM
KINGSTON UNIVERSITY
17-20 JULY

The Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames is an outer borough of Greater London. The Post Office still treats it as part of Surrey, but politically it’s part of London, and it’s served by Transport for London. The capital is big and expensive. Its public transport system is complicated. Here is some advice on how to use it to get where you want to go, and how to get the best value for your money. First, let me warn you against a couple of common errors.
Kingston is one of the zones of Greater London unserved by the London Underground system (the Tube). Never enter a Tube station thinking the Tube will carry you all the way to Kingston. It won’t. The borough is well served, however, by buses and by overground trains.
Secondly, whenever you can, avoid paying piecemeal for journeys on public transport in London. You can buy a ticket just for the journey you’re embarking on, from a bus driver or at a Tube or railway station, but it’s expensive. The wise option for members attending the Symposium is to buy a Transport for London Oyster Card. This is an electronic card, which stores credit, and which you touch onto a sensor at the beginning of a journey. Bus fares, which would cost £2 bought piecemeal, cost the Oyster Card user 90p. Tube journeys within the innermost zone (Zone 1) cost the Oyster Card user £1.50 instead of £4. The simplest way to acquire one is online. This costs £12 for an initial £10 worth of stored credit. Allow five working days for delivery. Go to http://www.visitlondonoffers.com/oyster-card/index.htm. Otherwise, cards can be bought, or credit topped up, at most Tube stations, at most railway stations within Greater London, and at many newsagents. At Heathrow you can buy them at any of the Tube stations serving the airport, including Hatton Cross.
Beware, though. The Oyster Card can be used on few overground railway lines south of the Thames, on none you’re likely to use. For those, a separate ticket will be needed. A one-day Travel Card will often make sense. Ask at the station booking office.
If you are coming to the symposium from overseas, and don’t procure yourself an Oyster Card from the start, remember that you will need sterling small change for initial bus fares. Our lowest denomination banknote is now the £5 note. Most bus drivers will accept that. They will be happy with coins, but unhappy with £10 notes, or notes of higher value.

Travel between Heathrow Airport and Kingston University Kingston Hill Campus

A London taxi from Heathrow to the Kingston Hill Campus costs £40 to £50. Buses are an unglamorous but much cheaper alternative.
If you arrive at Terminal 1, Terminal 2 or Terminal 3, follow the notices to the Central Bus Station, and at stand 20 catch a 285 or an X26 bus to Kingston’s Cromwell Road Bus Station. The average journey time is 70 minutes. You can also get to Kingston on a 111 bus, but via a more circuitous route, which takes longer.
If you arrive at Terminal 4 or Terminal 5, take a free 423 or 490 bus the short distance to Hatton Cross Bus Station, and there pick up the 285 or X26 bus to Kingston.
At Kingston’s Cromwell Road Bus Station catch an 85 or a K3 bus, and alight at the Kingston Hill Campus, the stop after St Anne’s Catholic Church. Cross the road, enter the campus, walk up the short drive, and you will see the reception building before you.
To get from the Kingston Hill Campus to Heathrow, it’s almost the same journey in reverse, but the Kingston one-way system imposes some initial differences. From outside the campus (on the same side of the road) catch an 85 bus to Fairfield Bus Station or a K3 bus to Eden Street. From either, walk to the corner where Clarence Street joins Cromwell Road—about 250 yards (see the map of central Kingston, obtainable as indicated below). The X26 Heathrow service leaves from a stop on Clarence Street opposite one flank of the Odeon cinema. The 285 Heathrow service leaves from the Cromwell Road Bus Station opposite the other flank of the cinema.

Travel between Gatwick Airport and Kingston University Kingston Hill Campus

Go to the railway station at Gatwick Airport, and buy a ticket to Norbiton, the railway station in the Royal Borough nearest to the Kingston Hill Campus. Avoid getting onto the Gatwick Express, catch a stopping train, alight at Clapham Junction, go to Platform 11, and catch any one of several services going to Norbiton.
At Norbiton, exit from the ticket office side of the station, cross the road, and walk 100 yards uphill to a bus shelter, where you can catch a K3 bus to the Kingston Hill Campus, the stop after St Anne’s Catholic Church. When you get off the bus, cross the road, enter the campus, walk up the short drive, and you will see the reception building before you.
To get from the Kingston Hill Campus to Gatwick, make the same journey in reverse. Catch the K3 bus at the stop on the same side of the road as the campus, and get off at the stop ten yards uphill from Norbiton Station.

Travel between central London and Kingston University Kingston Hill Campus

Go to Waterloo Station, buy a ticket to Norbiton, and catch one of several services going to Norbiton, usually from Platforms 1 to 6.
At Norbiton, exit from the ticket office side of the station, cross the road, and walk 100 yards uphill to a bus shelter, where you can catch a K3 bus to the Kingston Hill Campus, the stop after St Anne’s Catholic Church. When you get off the bus, cross the road, enter the campus, walk up the short drive, and you will see the reception building before you.
To go the other way, make the same journey in reverse. Catch the K3 bus at the stop on the same side of the road as the campus, and get off at the stop ten yards uphill from Norbiton Station.
Members wishing to make an excursion to central London from Kingston are advised to buy a £7 one-day six-zone Travel Card, for use after 0930 on weekdays, and without restriction at weekends. Cheap day-return tickets from either Norbiton or Kingston will cost a little less, but will take you only as far as Waterloo. The Travel Card gives you unlimited travel on all trains, tubes and buses within the six zones.

Travel between the Kingston Hill Campus and central Kingston

At the bus stop outside the campus, on the same side of the road, catch either a K3 bus and
alight at Eden Street, or an 85 bus and alight at Fairfield Bus Station. From Eden Street or Fairfield Bus Station, it’s an easy walk to anywhere in central Kingston (see the map of central Kingston, obtainable as indicated below). Returning to the campus, you can catch either the 85 or the K3 at Cromwell Road Bus Station. The K3 can also be caught in Brook Street and Eden Street.

Maps

Members will find it useful to print out the following maps.

Google Map of Kingston:
http://www.google.com/maps?hl=en&q=Kingston+Upon+Thames+Surrey+UK&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=X&oi=geocode_result&resnum=1&ct=title

Multimap map of the Kingston Hill area:
http://www.multimap.com/maps/?&t=l&map=51.41517,-0.29174|14|4&loc=GB:51.41517:-0.29174:14&dp=841#map=51.42944,-0.26427|16|4&dp=841&loc=GB:51.42945:-0.26427:16|kt2 7lb|KT2 7LB

Map of Waterloo Station and its surroundings:
www.londontown.com/Search/Full/Waterloo%20Railway%Station/waterloo%20railway%20station

Map of Kingston Hill Campus prepared by the School of Natural Therapies, which includes irrelevancies but is the clearest I can find:
http://www.snt.pyewacketdesign.co.uk/where.html

London Tube Map:
http://www.aiesec.co.uk/downloads/tubemap.gif

London overground railway map:
www.johomaps.com/eu/ire_uk/uk/london/londonrail.html

Travel to the Kingston Hill Campus by car

Kingston Hill is the A308, which diverges from the A3 London to Portsmouth road at Robin Hood Roundabout. Drivers coming from the London direction reach the roundabout soon after passing Putney Vale Cemetery on their left. Drivers from the Portsmouth direction reach it soon after playing fields on either side of the Kingston Bypass give way to houses. The Kingston Hill Campus is on the east side of Kingston Hill, the left as you drive towards Kingston. Subject to availability, a permit to park your car on campus can be obtained if you email dorich.house@kingston.ac.uk.


David Parker

Dickens Symposium Optional Activities

Thursday 17 July
1930-2130 Drop-in dinner (paid for by diners) at Al Forno, Kingston High Street. Al Forno is on Townsend Parade, on the east side of Kingston High Street, just south of East Lane, and across the road from the Thames. By London standards, it's a moderately priced restaurant, serving familiar Italian dishes, and a good range of pizzas, many of which would suit vegetarians. The best way to get to the restaurant from the Kingston Hill Campus is to catch a K3 bus towards Kingston, alight at Eden Street, and walk the rest of the way along Eden Street and the High Street.

Friday 18 July
1851 Thames boat trip. £12 per head, payable to David Parker directly. There is no need to book much in advance. The boat is big enough for everyone and more. But if you want to send a sterling cheque before you come, by all means do so. Make it out to David Parker, and send it to 16 Alric Avenue, New Malden, Surrey, KT3 4JN, UK. Otherwise, pay by cash or sterling cheque when you arrive in Kingston. Embark at Parr's Landing, Queen's Promenade, Portsmouth Road, Kingston, alight in Eden Street, and walk the rest of the way via the High Street and Portsmouth Road.

There will be a commentary throughout the trip, on riverside locations featuring in Dickens's life and works. First the boat will cruise to Hampton Court. The palace will be closed, but there will be half an hour to examine its splendid exterior, and to enjoy the park and gardens which are open until dusk. Afterwards, the boat will sail down river, through Kingston again, past Teddington, Strawberry Hill, Twickenham, Ham and Petersham, to Richmond, where we shall disembark at about 2030. For those with energy remaining, there will be a short guided stroll around the Richmond of Charles Dickens. Richmond has many restaurants where it is good to dine.

To return from Richmond to the Kingston Hill Campus, catch a 371 bus at Richmond Station, alight in Norbiton at the foot of Kingston Hill, and catch an 85 bus up the hill to the campus. Or catch a 65 bus on the Petersham Road near to the Bridge, alight in central Kingston, and catch an 85 or K3 bus at Cromwell Road Bus Station to the campus.

Saturday 19 July
1745 One-hour guided walks around historic Kingston £3 per head, payable to your guide. Please advise David Parker (dbozparker@aol.com) no later than Saturday 12 July, if you would like to take one of these walks. On the day, meet your guide at 1745 at the gates to All Saints Church on the north side of Kingston's Ancient Market Place. The best way to get there from the Kingston Hill Campus is to catch a K3 bus towards Kingston, alight in Eden Street, walk to the end of the street, and turn right into the Market Place.

1945 Wine reception, sponsored by AMS Press Inc. AMS is also providing the wine at the banquet which follows. All are welcome to the wine reception, whether or not you are attending the banquet.

Sunday 20 July
1430 Walks around the London of Charles Dickens, guided by members of the Dickens Fellowship. Free to all members of the Dickens Society. Two walks are on offer. Those interested should book with the guides directly.

"A Christmas Carol and Seasonal Traditions." Guided by Jean Haynes. Assemble outside Tower Hill Tube Station at 1430. The walk takes about two hours, follows in the footsteps of Scrooge, and finishes at St. Paul's Tube Station. Book directly with jeanhaynes@ntlworld.com

"Dickens's Neighbourhood." Guided by Tony Williams. Assemble at 1430, at the Charles Dickens Museum, 48 Doughty Street. Go to Russell Square Tube Station, turn right as you emerge, right at Grenville Street, left at Guilford Street, and right into Doughty Street. The circular walk, lasting about two hours, explores the area around Dickens's former home at 48 Doughty Street. Book directly with WTo1@aol.com.

PROGRAMME
DICKENS SOCIETY SYMPOSIUM
KINGSTON UNIVERSITY
17-20 JULY, 2008

THURSDAY 17 JULY

1300-1800 Register at Kingston University Kingston Hill Campus
(it will also be possible to register on Friday morning).

1930-2130 Drop in dinner (paid for by diners) at Al Forno, Kingston High Street.

FRIDAY 18 JULY

0900 Assemble.

0915 Welcome.

0945 Panel 1: Social Contexts: Chair Edgar Rosenberg (Cornell University).

Katharina Boehm (King’s College London). ‘London Geographies of Child Health – Charles Dickens and the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children.’
Adelene Buckland (University of Cambridge). ‘Pictures in the Fire: Coal, History and Fictional Form in Dickens’s Our Mutual Friend.’
Trey Philpotts (Arkansas Tech University). ‘Mad Bulls and Dead Meat: Smithfield Market as Victorian Symbol.’

1100 Coffee Break.

1115 Panel 2: Biography. Chair Natalie Cole (Oakland University).

Robert Garnett (Gettysburg College). ‘Re-visiting Warren’s Blacking and Lombard Street.’
Lillian Nayder (Bates College). “Catherine Georgina,” or, What’s in a Name? Understanding the Hogarth Sisterhood.’
Margaret Flanders Darby (Colgate University). ‘The Conservatory at Gad’s Hill Place.’

1230 Lunch break.

1400 Panel 3: Characters. Chair Donald Hawes

Meoghan Byrne Cronin (Saint Anselm College). “’My Lady Fair the Conjurer Plays”: Miss Havisham and the Victorian Dangerous Bride.’
Gareth Cordery (University of Canterbury, New Zealand). ‘Making the Acquaintance of Miss Mowcher.’
Joel J. Brattin (Worcester Polytechnic Institute). ‘Dick Swiveller’s Bed.’
Jane K. Asher (Wayne State University). ‘David’s Blank Spaces and Ignominious Faces: Unmasking the Affect of Shame in Charles Dickens’s David Copperfield.’

1535 Tea break.

1550 Panel 4: Illustrations. Chair Lucinda Hawksley (Institute of European Studies, Charles Dickens Museum).

Leon Litvack (Queen’s University, Belfast). ‘Marcus Stone: A Reassessment.’
Chris Louttit (University of Leicester). ‘Re-illustrating Dickens: The Household Edition of His Novels.’
Philip V. Allingham (Lakehead University). ‘Frederick Barnard’s Martin Chuzzlewit Illustrations (1870).’

1710 Free time. A webpage detailing optional activities will appear in due course.

SATURDAY 19 JULY

0900 Panel 5: Technique. Chair Tony Williams (Dickens Fellowship/University of Buckingham).

Goldie Morgentaler (University of Lethbridge). ‘Man and Woman Made He Them: Mr Dickens Speaks in Two Voices.’
David Paroissien (University of Buckingham). ‘The “Strange Power of Speech” Telling and Technique in Great Expectations.’
Robert Tracy (University of California, Berkeley). “’There’s no business like show business!”: Theatrical Conventions in The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby.’
David Parker (Kingston University). ‘The Artistry of Pickwick Papers: A Palindromic Chapter.’

1035 Coffee Break.

1050 Panel 6: Social and Literary Contexts. Chair Leon Litvack (Queen’s University, Belfast).

John Bowen (University of York). “The Genres of Pickwick.’
Kelley Mandeville (Oakland University). ‘Betraying Dinner: Improper Dining in Little Dorrit.’
Nancy Aycock Metz (Virginia Tech University). ‘Dickens and the American “Logocracy.”’
Mark Cronin (Saint Anselm College). ‘”A Gravestone on His Fame”: Charles Dickens, Charles Lever and the Knight of Gwynne.’

1230 Lunch break.

1400 Panel 7: Characters. Chair Jeremy Tambling (University of Manchester).

Anita Fernandez Young and Robert Young (University of Nottingham). ‘The Character Structure of Great Expectations: A Graph Theory Approach to Analysis.’
Bert Hornback (University of Michigan, retired). “Judging Eugene Wrayburn.’
Robert Heaman (Wilkes University). ‘Esther Summerson as Artist.’

1515 Tea Break.

Panel 8 Biography. Chair Avril Horner (Kingston University).

Jenny Hartley (Roehampton University). ‘Dickens and the House of Fallen Women.’
Jane Jordan (Kingston University). ‘Dickens’ Autobiographical Fragment and the Gendering of Nineteenth Century Confessional Life-Writing.’

1630 Dickens Society Annual General Meeting.

1700 Free time. A webpage detailing optional activities will appear in due course.

1945 Reception, sponsored by AMS Press, Inc.

2000 Banquet.

SUNDAY 20 JULY

0900 Panel 9: Themes and Plots. Chair Wendy Jacobson (Rhodes University, South Africa).

David J. Smith (Pennsylvania State University). ‘Visions of the Shadowy World: From A Christmas Carol to Bleak House.’
Leslie Simon (Boston University). ‘Collecting Dust: Bleak House, Our Mutual Friend and the Disintegrating Modern Self.’
Jennifer Gribble (University of Sydney). ‘The Bible in Great Expectations.’
Tamara Silvia Wagner (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore). ‘Circumlocuting Exotic Legacies: The Aborted Detective Plot of Little Dorrit.’

1015 Coffee break.

1030 Panel 10: Adaptations. Chair Chris Louttit (University of Leicester).

Pamela Atzori (University of Aberystwyth). ‘Citoyen Charles Dickens: French Television Adaptations of the Works of Charles Dickens.’
Elizabeth Bridgham (Providence College). ‘The Portable Dickens: Great Expectations and the Dickensian Pilgrimage of Mister Pip.’

1200 Lunch.

PM A webpage detailing optional activities will appear in due course.

THE DICKENS SOCIETY THIRTEENTH ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM
KINGSTON UNIVERSITY, LONDON, 17-20 JULY 2008

The Symposium will take place at the Kingston Hill Campus of Kingston University, a ten-minute bus ride from the centre of the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames. Accommodation for those wanting it, meeting rooms, and refreshment facilities, will all be provided on campus. You can sign in on campus either during the afternoon of Thursday 17 July, or during the morning of Friday 18 July. If you book a room on campus, you will be able to occupy it during the Thursday afternoon. The first gathering of the symposium will be a Thursday evening dinner (at the diner's expense) in a restaurant in Kingston town centre.

The on-campus accommodation (Thursday night to Sunday morning) will be in student housing. Large, modern, high-standard rooms will be provided, with en suite bathrooms (shower but no tub). Only single rooms are available, but partners can be accommodated in adjacent rooms. Fees paid by those staying on campus, and attending the symposium, cover breakfast, lunch, refreshments mid-morning and mid-afternoon, but not dinner (beginning with breakfast Friday and finishing with lunch Sunday). Fees for partners staying on campus, but not taking part in the symposium, cover just bed and breakfast.
Two conveniently situated hotels offer accommodation for those preferring to stay off campus. Plain, decent en suite rooms at the Travelodge in Old London Road (www.travelodge.co.uk) can be had for as little as £15 per night by those booking early. A breakfast bag costs £4.50. Close also to many restaurants and cafés in Kingston town centre, the Travelodge is three minutes' walk from a bus stop, where buses depart for the Kingston Hill Campus, eight minutes away. The Kingston Lodge Hotel on Kingston Hill (kingstonlodge@brook-hotels.co.uk) offers comfortable en suite rooms and a substantial breakfast from £95 per night. It is less than five minutes by bus to Kingston Hill Campus.
Fees for those choosing to stay off campus cover lunch, refreshments mid-morning and mid-afternoon, but neither breakfast nor dinner.
The Saturday night banquet will be on campus, and is priced separately. Payments for events and excursions, yet to be finalised and announced, will be collected during the Symposium. All fees are inclusive of Value Added Tax.

Fees should be paid, not later than 31 May, by cheque or international money order, made out to the Dickens Society, in either pounds sterling or US dollars. To print out a copy of this form go to: http://dickensquarterly.org/BookingForm.pdf
Send the completed form with payment in pounds sterling to David Paroissien, 100 Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 7NE, UK. Payments in US dollars should be posted to Bob Heaman, 35 Port Jenkins Lane, White Haven, PA 18661, USA.

Note Bed and breakfast accommodation, before and after the Symposium, can be booked, subject to availability, at Kingston University's Seeting Wells Campus. Contact dorich.house@kingston.ac.uk.

For detailed information about getting to and from Kingston, please click on the following link:
http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=ahdg72pw37zb_19fdxds5gn&invite=hd9w5vj

DICKENS QUARTERLY

March 2008
Volume 25 Number 1

ARTICLES

Christine Alexander: The Juvenilia of Charles Dickens: Romance and Reality 3

Leslie Simon: Archives of the Interior: Exhibitions of Domesticity
in The Pickwick Papers 23

Nancy Metz: Italy: The Sequel 37


REVIEW ESSAY

Trey Philpotts on Leon Litvack: Charles Dickens's Dombey and Son: An Annotated
Bibliography; on Robert C. Hanna: Dickens's Nonfictional, Theatrical, and Poetical
Writings: An Annotated Bibliography, 1820-2000 46


REVIEWS

Francesco Marroni on Paul Davis: Critical Companion to Charles Dickens: A
Literary Reference to His Life and Work; on Ian Brinton: Dickens's Great
Expectations: A Reader's Guide 52

Brigid Lowe on Rachel Ablow: The Marriage of Minds: Reading Sympathy in the Victorian Marriage Plot 55

Patrick McCarthy on Lloyd Jones: Mr. Pip 59


ANNOUNCEMENTS 61


THE DICKENS CHECKLIST - Elizabeth Bridgham 65


NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS 70

Dickens Quarterly is produced for the Dickens Society with assistance from the English Departments of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst
and the College of General Studies, Boston University.
Printed in Northampton, Massachusetts by Tiger Press.

DQ


Copyright 2008 by the Dickens Society

DICKENS QUARTERLY

December 2007
Volume 24 Number 4

ARTICLES
George Goodin: The Uses and Usages of Muddle (part two) 201
Eleanor McNees: Reluctant Source: Murray's Handbooks and Pictures from Italy 211
John M. L. Drew: Pictures from The Daily News: Context, Correspondents, and
Correlations 230


REVIEWS
Juliet John on Sally Ledger: Dickens and the Popular Radical Imagination 247
Goldie Morgentaler on Nancy Armstrong: How Novels Think: The Limits of Individualism from 1719-1900 250
Meoghan Cronin on Tamara Wagner: Longing: Narratives of Nostalgia in the British Novel, 1740-1890 253


THE THIRTY-EIGHTH DICKENS SOCIETY MEETING AND BUSINESS 257


ANNOUNCEMENTS 260


THE DICKENS CHECKLIST - Elizabeth Bridgham 266


NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS 271

Dickens Quarterly is produced for the Dickens Society with assistance from the English Department of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and the College of General Studies, Boston University.
Printed in Northampton, Massachusetts by Tiger Press.

DQ

Copyright 2007 by the Dickens Society