Sketches By Boz

Sketches By Boz – Charles Dickens

“Sketches By Boz” is a collection of 56 sketches concerning London scenes and inhabitants. Most of the stories, that are divided into four sections, are portraits, but there are also some purely fictional ones.

Sketches By Boz

Sketches By Boz.

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The majority of the 56 sketches that appeared together in 1839 were originally published individually in popular newspapers and periodicals, including The Morning Chronicle, The Evening Chronicle, The Monthly Magazine, The Carlton Chronicle and Bell’s Life in London, between 1833 and 1836:

“Mr. Minns and his Cousin” (SB 46), originally, “A Dinner at Poplar Walk” in The Monthly Magazine, 1 December 1833.
“Mrs. Joseph Porter, Over the Way” (SB 53), originally in The Monthly Magazine, January 1834.
“Horatio Sparkins” (SB 49), originally in The Monthly Magazine, February 1834.
“The Bloomsbury Christening” (SB 55), originally in The Monthly Magazine, April 1834.
“The Boarding-House” (SB 45), originally in The Monthly Magazine, May & August 1834.
“Sentiment” (SB 47), originally in Bell’s Weekly Magazine, 7 June 1834.
“The Steam Excursion” (SB 51), originally in The Monthly Magazine, October 1834.
“A Passage in the Life of Mr. Watkins Tottle” (SB 54), originally “Chapter the First” and “Chapter the Second” in two numbers of The Monthly Magazine, January and February 1835.
“The Four Sisters” (SB 3), Our Parish 3, originally, “Sketches of London No. 14” in The Evening Chronicle, 18 June 1835.
“The Election for Beadle” (SB 4), Our Parish 4, originally, “Sketches of London No. 16” in The Evening Chronicle, 14 July 1835.
“The Broker’s Man” (SB 5), Our Parish 5, originally, “Sketches of London No. 18” in The Evening Chronicle, 28 July 1835.
“The Ladies’ Societies” (SB 6), Our Parish 6, originally, “Sketches of London No. 20” in The Evening Chronicle, 28 July 1835.
“Miss Evans and the Eagle” (SB 36), (Scenes and Characters No. 2) originally in Bell’s Life in London, 4 October 1835.
“The Dancing Academy” (SB 41), originally, “Scenes and Characters, No. 3” in Bell’s Life in London, 11 October 1835.
“Making a Night of It” (SB 43), originally, “Scenes and Characters No. 4” in Bell’s Life in London, 18 October 1835.
“The Misplaced Attachment of Mr. John Dounce” (SB 39), originally, “Scenes and Characters No. 5. Love and Oysters,” in Bell’s Life in London, 25 October 1835.
“Some Account of an Omnibus Cad” originally, “Scenes and Characters No. 6,” later retitled and expanded into “The Last Cab-driver and the First Omnibus Cab”; in Bell’s Life in London, 1 November 1835.
“The Mistaken Milliner. A Tale of Ambition” (SB 40) originally “Scenes and Characters No. 7. The Vocal Dressmaker,” in Bell’s Life in London, 22 November 1835.
“The New Year” (SB 35), originally in Bell’s Life in London, 3 January 1836.
“The Great Winglebury Duel” (SB 52), originally in the First Series of Sketches by Boz, 8 February 1836.
“The Black Veil” (SB 50) originally in the First Series of Sketches by Boz, 8 February 1836.
“Our Next-Door Neighbour” (Our Parish 7), originally, “Our Next-Door Neighbours” in The Morning Chronicle, 18 March 1836.
“The Tuggses at Ramsgate” (Tales 4), originally in The Library of Fiction No. 1, 31 March 1836 (accompanied by two Robert Seymour woodcuts).
“The Hospital Patient” (SB 38), Characters 6, originally in The Carlton Chronicle, 6 August 1836.
“The Drunkard’s Death” (SB 56), originally in the Second Series of Sketches by Boz, 17 December 1836.

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