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Charles Dickens

(Born: February 7, 1812 - Died: June 9, 1870)

English novelist and social critic.
According to the Native Virginian (Orange Court House, VA), vol. I, vol. 14, February 14, 1868, p. 2, col. 5: "Dickens, it is reported, has sent $1,000 to Mrs. Clemm, mother-in-law of Edgar A. Poe."

Criticism (Texts and Variant Texts)

Review of Watkins Tottle, and other Sketches

Review of Watkins Tottle, and other Sketches (June 1836, text "A" — Southern Literary Messenger)
(excerpt) Marginalia item CCXIII (1850, text "B" — Works)

Notice of The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club (November 1836, text "A" — Southern Literary Messenger)

Review of The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (December 1839, text "A" — Burton's)

Review of The Old Curiosity Shop and other Tales and Master Humphrey's Clock

Review of The Old Curiosity Shop and other Tales and Master Humphrey's Clock (May 1841, text "A" — Graham's)
(excerpts) Marginalia items CCXII, CCXV, CCXVI, CCIX and CCXXII (1850, text "B" — Works)

Review of Barnaby Rudge

Review of Barnaby Rudge (May 1, 1841, text "A" — Saturday Evening Post)
Review of Barnaby Rudge (February 1842, text "B" — Graham's)
Review of Barnaby Rudge (1850, text "C" — Works)

Reprints:

Review of Barnaby Rudge (June 1, 1913 — New York Times Book Review Supplement) (reprinted version of the review from the SEP)
Review of Barnaby Rudge (July 1913 — The Dickensian) (first appearance in book form of the original version of the review from the SEP)

Letters

C. Dickens to E. A. Poe - March 6, 1842

C. Dickens to E. A. Poe - November 27, 1842

C. Dickens to E. A. Poe - March 19, 1846

Bibliography:

Heartman, Charles F. and James R. Canny, A Bibliography of First Printings of the Writings of Edgar Allan Poe, Hattiesburg, MS: The Book Farm, 1943.

Mabbott, Thomas Ollive, ed., The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Vols 2-3 Tales and Sketches), Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1978. (Second printing 1979)

Thomas, Dwight and David K. Jackson, The Poe Log: A Documentary Life of Edgar Allan Poe 1809-1849, Boston: G. K. Hall & Sons, 1987.

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