Bibliographies:

                   K.J. FIELDING, Charles Dickens (1953); ADA NISBET, "Charles
                   Dickens," in LIONEL STEVENSON (ed.), Victorian Fiction: A
                   Guide to Research, pp. 44-153 (1964, reprinted 1980), a full
                   discussion of materials for Dickens studies and of writings about him in
                   many languages, through 1962; Victorian Fiction: A Second Guide to
                   Research, ed. by GEORGE H. FORD, pp. 34-113 (1978), covering
                   1963-74. See also PHILIP COLLINS, A Dickens Bibliography
                   (1970), offprinted from GEORGE WATSON (ed.), New Cambridge
                   Bibliography of English Literature, vol. 3, col. 779-850 (1969).
                   REGINALD C. CHURCHILL (comp.), Bibliography of Dickensian
                   Criticism: 1836-1974 (1975), a selective, partly annotated bibliography.
 
 
 

                   Most of the manuscripts and proof sheets of the novels are in the Victoria
                   and Albert Museum, London. Other important collections of manuscripts
                   and letters are in Dickens House, London; the British Museum; New
                   York Public Library; Pierpont Morgan Library, New York City; Free
                   Library of Philadelphia; Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery,
                   San Marino, California; the University of Texas Libraries; and Yale
                   University Library. The Dickens Fellowship (Dickens House, London)
                   has branches all over the world and publishes the Dickensian (thrice
                   yearly). Dickens Studies Newsletter (quarterly) and Dickens Studies
                   Annual are published from Carbondale, Illinois, where the Dickens
                   Society is based.
 
 
 

                   Collected editions:
 
 
 

                   The New Oxford Illustrated Dickens (1947-58); and the Clarendon
                   edition, begun in 1966. See also Speeches, ed. by K.J. FIELDING
                   (1960); and Public Readings, ed. by PHILIP COLLINS (1975).
 
 
 

                   Letters:
 
 
 

                   The most complete collection, The Letters of Charles Dickens, ed. by
                   WALTER DEXTER, 3 vol. (1938), is superseded by The Letters of
                   Charles Dickens, ed. by MADELINE HOUSE et al., begun in 1965.
                   See also The Heart of Charles Dickens, As Revealed in His Letters to
                   Angela Burdett-Coutts, ed. by EDGAR JOHNSON (1952, reprinted
                   1976).
 
 
 

                   Biographies:
 
 
 

                   JOHN FORSTER, The Life of Charles Dickens, 3 vol. (1872-74),
                   remains indispensable; though EDGAR JOHNSON, Charles Dickens:
                   His Tragedy and Triumph, 2 vol. (1952, reprinted 1965), supersedes
                   it. NORMAN and JEANNE MacKENZIE, Dickens (1979), is a
                   popular biography; PHILIP COLLINS (ed.), Dickens, 2 vol. (1981),
                   contains interviews with and recollections of people who knew him;
                   FRED KAPLAN, Dickens and Mesmerism (1975), relates his interest
                   in hypnotism to concerns expressed in his novels; JOSEPH GOLD,
                   Charles Dickens: Radical Moralist (1972), is a discussion of his ethical
                   beliefs.
 
 
 

                   Criticism:
 
 
 

                   GEORGE R. GISSING, Charles Dickens: A Critical Study (1898,
                   reissued 1976); G.K. CHESTERTON, Charles Dickens (1903,
                   reprinted 1977); GEORGE ORWELL, "Dickens," in Critical Essays,
                   pp. 7-56 (1946); EDMUND WILSON, "Dickens: The Two Scrooges,"
                   in The Wound and the Bow, pp. 1-104 (1941); HUMPHRY HOUSE,
                   The Dickens World, 2nd ed. (1942, reissued 1971), an excellent
                   discussion of Dickens and his age; GEORGE H. FORD, Dickens and
                   His Readers (1955, reprinted 1974); JOHN E. BUTT and
                   KATHLEEN TILLOTSON, Dickens at Work (1957, reprinted 1982);
                   J. HILLIS MILLER, Charles Dickens: The World of His Novels
                   (1958, reissued 1969), a highly influential critical study; PHILIP
                   COLLINS, Dickens and Crime (1962); ROBERT GARIS, The
                   Dickens Theatre (1965); ANGUS WILSON, The World of Charles
                   Dickens (1970); and FRANK R. and Q.D. LEAVIS, Dickens, the
                   Novelist (1970, reissued 1979).
 
 
 

                   Anthologies of Dickens criticism:
 
 
 

                   GEORGE H. FORD and L. LANE (eds.), The Dickens Critics (1961,
                   reprinted 1976); STEPHEN WALL (ed.), Charles Dickens: A Critical
                   Anthology (1970); and PHILIP COLLINS (ed.), Dickens, the Critical
                   Heritage (1971), on his critical reception in 1836-82. (Ph.C./Ed.)