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.
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