Collection context
Summary
- Title:
- Playbills Relating to Charles Dickens,
- Dates:
- ca. 1835-1875
- Abstract:
- Charles Dickens (1812-1870) was born at Portsea, near Portsmouth, England. He was originally a journalist, but also wrote fictional sketches of London life and novels. He held private theatrical events at his London home as well. The collection consists of 19th century English playbills for plays written by Dickens or adapted from novels by Dickens, as well as 9 plays in which Dickens appeared as an actor.
- Extent:
- 1 box (0.5 linear ft.)
- Language:
- English.
- Preferred citation:
-
[Identification of item], Playbills Relating to Charles Dickens (Collection 633). Department of Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
Background
- Scope and content:
-
Collection consists of 19th century English playbills for plays written by Dickens or adapted from novels by Dickens, as well as 9 plays in which Dickens appeared as an actor. Most of these were removed from The Extra-Illustrated Life of Charles Dickens, by John Forster (London, Chapman and Hall, 1872-74: Collection 170/404). Titles include Barnaby Rudge, Battle of Life, The Chimes, A Christmas Carol, Cricket on the Hearth, David Copperfield, Dombey and Son, Hard Times, The Haunted Man, Is She His Wife?, Little Dorrit, Martin Chuzzlewit, Master Humphrey's Clock, Mrs. Gamp's Tea and Turnout, Nicholas Nickleby, No Thoroughfare, Old Curiosity Shop, Oliver Twist, Our Mutual Friend, Pickwick Papers, Seven Poor Travelers, The Strange Gentleman, A Tale of Two Cities, and Village Coquettes.
- Biographical / historical:
-
Charles Dickens was born on February 7, 1812 at Portsea, near Portsmouth, England; moved with his parents to Chatham and then London; attended Wellington House Academy, and at 15 became an office boy in the Holborn law firm of Ellis and Blackmore; went into journalism, becoming by 1832 a general reporter for the True Sun and parliamentary reporter for the Mirror of Parliament; began to write fictional sketches of London life for magazines, leading to the publication of Sketches by Boz (1836); became a novelist with Pickwick papers, serialized in 1836-37; held private theatrical events at his London home, and between 1847-57 the amateur company that he formed appeared in public more then 60 times; other published works include Oliver Twist (1837-39), Dombey and Son (1846-48), David Copperfield (1849-50), Bleak House (1952-53), A Tale of Two Cities (1859), and Great Expectations; he died at Gad's Hill on June 9, 1870.
- Physical location:
- Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact the UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections Reference Desk for paging information.
Indexed terms
- Subjects:
- Authors, English--19th century.
Playbills. - Names:
- Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
About this collection guide
- Date Prepared:
- © 1999
- Date Encoded:
- Machine-readable finding aid derived from database containing container list structure and data, encoding added via MS Access or other database program, October 1970 . Frontmatter gathered from MARC record. Supplementary encoding and revision supplied by Myra Villamor and Caroline Cubé.
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF: Advance notice required for access.
- Terms of access:
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Property rights to the physical object belong to the UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections. Literary rights, including copyright, are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright.
- Preferred citation:
-
[Identification of item], Playbills Relating to Charles Dickens (Collection 633). Department of Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
- Location of this collection:
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A1713 Charles E. Young Research LibraryBox 951575Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575, US
- Contact:
- (310) 825-4988