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A Database of Victorian Fiction, 1837–1901

A Database of Victorian Fiction, 1837–1901

Periodical: Household Words

Periodical: Household Words

History: Published weekly on Saturdays, price 2d. "Conducted" by Charles Dickens. Dickens's son successfully revived the periodical in the 1880s. See entry in Sutherland.

References: British Periodicals; Dickens Journals Online (http://www.djo.org.uk/all-the-year-round.html); DNCJ; Sutherland

Novels and short stories serialized in Household Words:

  1. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. "Lizzie Leigh", 30 March 1850 to 13 April 1850 (weekly).
  2. Julia Kavanagh. "An Excellent Opportunity", 27 July 1850.
  3. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. "The Well of Pen-Morfa", 16 November 1850 to 23 November 1850 (weekly).
  4. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. "The Heart of John Middleton", 28 December 1850.
  5. William Moy Thomas. "The Other Garret", 11 January 1851.
  6. William Moy Thomas. "Alice and the Angel", 29 March 1851.
  7. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. "Disappearances", 7 June 1851.
  8. William Moy Thomas. "The Island in the River", 28 June 1851 to 12 July 1851 (weekly).
  9. William Moy Thomas. "The Home of the Hundred Blind Men", 22 November 1851.
  10. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. "Our Society at Cranford", 13 December 1851.
  11. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. "A Love Affair at Cranford", 3 January 1852.
  12. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. "Memory at Cranford", 13 March 1852.
  13. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. "Visiting at Cranford", 3 April 1852.
  14. Wilkie Collins. "A Terribly Strange Bed", 24 April 1852.
  15. William Moy Thomas. "A Guest for the Night", 6 November 1852.
  16. William Moy Thomas. "Cogwell's", 27 November 1852.
  17. William Moy Thomas. "Doctor Chillingworth's Prescription", 11 December 1852.
  18. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. "The Old Nurse's Story", 25 December 1852. (Christmas Number).
  19. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. "The Great Cranford Panic", 8 January 1853 to 15 January 1853 (weekly).
  20. William Moy Thomas. "A Shadowy Passion", 5 February 1853.
  21. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. "Stopped Payment at Cranford", 2 April 1853.
  22. Wilkie Collins. "Gabriel's Marriage", 16 April 1853 to 23 April 1853 (weekly).
  23. William Moy Thomas. "Myself and my Family", 30 April 1853.
  24. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. "Friends in Need at Cranford", 7 May 1853.
  25. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. "A Happy Return to Cranford", 21 May 1853.
  26. William Moy Thomas. "The Borrowed Book", 4 June 1853.
  27. Eliza Lynn Linton. "Marie's Fever", 30 July 1853.
  28. Eliza Lynn Linton. "Two Cousins", 12 November 1853.
  29. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. "Morton Hall", 19 November 1853 to 26 November 1853 (weekly).
  30. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. "Traits and Stories of the Huguenots", 10 December 1853.
  31. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. "My French Master", 17 December 1853 to 24 December 1853 (weekly).
  32. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. "The Squire's Story", 25 December 1853. (Christmas Number).
  33. William Moy Thomas. "A Leaf from the Parish Register", 7 January 1854.
  34. Charles Dickens. Hard Times, 1 April 1854 to 12 August 1854 (weekly).
  35. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. "Company Manners", 20 May 1854.
  36. William Moy Thomas. "Miss Furbey", 17 June 1854.
  37. William Moy Thomas. "The Last Howley of Killowen", 15 July 1854.
  38. Eliza Lynn Linton. "Wild and Tame", 26 August 1854.
  39. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South, 2 September 1854 to 27 January 1855 (weekly).
  40. Eliza Lynn Linton. "Mildred's Lovers", 11 November 1854.
  41. Wilkie Collins. "The Fourth Poor Traveller", 14 December 1854. (Christmas Number).
  42. Wilkie Collins. "Sister Rose", 7 April 1855 to 28 April 1855 (weekly).
  43. Wilkie Collins. "The Yellow Mask", 7 July 1855 to 28 July 1855 (weekly).
  44. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. "The Accursed Race", 25 August 1855.
  45. Emily Jolly. "A Wife's Story", 1 September 1855 to 22 September 1855 (weekly).
  46. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. "Half a Life-Time Ago", 6 October 1855 to 20 October 1855 (weekly).
  47. Wilkie Collins. "The Osler", 15 December 1855. (Christmas Number).
  48. William Moy Thomas. "Dr. Graves of Warwick Street", 29 December 1855.
  49. Eliza Lynn Linton. "Langthwaite", 19 January 1856.
  50. Wilkie Collins. A Rogue's Life, 1 March 1856 to 29 March 1856 (weekly).
  51. Percy H. Fitzgerald. "At the Sign of the Silver Horn", 26 June 1856.
  52. Wilkie Collins. "The Diary of Anne Rodway", 19 July 1856 to 26 July 1856 (weekly).
  53. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. "The Poor Clare", 13 December 1856 to 27 December 1856 (weekly).
  54. Wilkie Collins. The Dead Secret, 3 January 1857 to 13 June 1857 (weekly).
  55. Percy H. Fitzgerald. "A Vision of a Studious Man", 28 March 1857.
  56. Wilkie Collins. "The Double-Bedded Room", 10 October 1857.
  57. William Moy Thomas. "Famine Aboard!", 16 January 1858.
  58. Percy H. Fitzgerald. "The Balcombe Street Mystery", 8 May 1858.
  59. Percy H. Fitzgerald. "The Blood of the Sundons", 12 June 1858.
  60. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. "My Lady Ludlow", 19 June 1858 to 25 September 1858 (weekly).
  61. Percy H. Fitzgerald. "The Canon's Clock", 21 August 1858.
  62. William Moy Thomas. "Tried Friendship", 9 October 1858.
  63. Wilkie Collins. "A Paradoxical Experience", 13 November 1858.
  64. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. "Right at Last", 27 November 1858.
  65. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. "The Manchester Marriage", 7 December 1858. (Christmas Number).
  66. Wilkie Collins. "A New Mind", 1 January 1859.