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Title	Date	Author	Publisher
The Life of Charles Dickens	1899	John Forster	New York: Charles Scribner's Sons
My Father, As I Recall Him	1896	Mamie Dickens	Roxburghe Press
Charles Dickens and His Friends	1909	William Teignmouth Shore	Cassell and Company, LTD
The Immortal Dickens	1925	George Gissing	London: Cecil Palmer
Dickens: A Portrait in Pencil	1928	Ralph Straus	London - Victor Gollancz LTD
Charles Dickens: His Triumph and Tragedy	1952	Edgar Johnson	Simon and Schuster
Carlyle and Dickens	1972	Michael Goldberg	University of Georgia Press
Dickens of London	1976	Wolf Mankowitz	Weidenfield and Nicolson
Drinking with Dickens	1988	Cedric Dickens	New Amsterdam New York
Dickens, A Biography	1988	Fred Kaplan	William Morrow and Co.
Dickens	1990	Peter Ackroyd	HarperCollins Publishers
The Invisible Woman	1990	Claire Tomalin	Penguin Books
The Life and Times of Charles Dickens	1991	Alan S. Watts	Crescent Books
Charles Dickens: A Literary Life	1996	Grahame Smith	Palgrave Macmillan
The World of Charles Dickens	1997	Martin Fido	Carlton Books Limited
The Friendly Dickens	1998	Norrie Epstein	Viking Penguin
Charles Dickens	2002	Jane Smiley	Penguin Putnam Inc, New York
Dickens: Public Life and Private Passion	2002	Peter Ackroyd	BBC Worldwide Ltd
Student Guide to Charles Dickens	2002	Robert Giddings	Greenwich Exchange
Charles Dickens	2009	Michael Slater	Yale University Press
The Other Dickens	2011	Lillian Nayder	Cornell University Press
Charles Dickens-A Life	2011	Claire Tomalin	The Penguin Press
The Genius of Dickens	2011	Michael Slater	Duckworth Overlook
Charles Dickens and the Blacking Factory	2011	Michael Allen	Oxford-Stockley
The Great Charles Dickens Scandal	2012	Michael Slater	Yale University Press
Charles Dickens' Favorite Daughter: The Life, Loves, and Art of Katey Dickens Perugini	2013	Lucinda Hawksley	Lyons Press
The Mystery of Charles Dickens	2020	A.N. Wilson	HarperCollins

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Title	Date	Author	Publisher
Four Months with Charles Dickens	1870	George Washington Putnam	The Atlantic
A Week's Tramp in Dickens-Land	1891	William R. Hughes	Chapman and Hall - London
Dickens' London	1903	Francis Miltoun	L.C. Page & Co
Staple Inn-Customs House, Wool Court and Inn of Chancery	1906	Elijah Williams	Archibald Constable & Company Ltd-London
Old Country Inns of England	1911	Henry Parr Maskell, Edward William Gregory	L.C. Page & Company, Boston
Charles Dickens in America	1911	William Glyde Wilkins	Chapman and Hall, London
A Child's Journey with Dickens	1912	Kate Douglas Wiggin	Boston and New York Houghton Mifflin Company
The Inns and Taverns of Pickwick	1921	B. W. Matz	Charles Scribner's Sons-New York
The London of Dickens	1923	Walter Dexter	Cecil Palmer-London
A Dickens Atlas	1923	Albert A Hopkins, Newbury Frost Read	Hatton Garden Press
David Copperfield's Library	1924	John Brett Langstaff	George Allen & Unwin LTD, London
Dickens Days in Boston	1927	Edward F. Payne	Houghton Mifflin
The Book of the Cheese	1929	Thomas W. Reid	Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese, London
Higham Priory	1965	A.F. Allen	Archaeologia Cantiana - Vol. 80 1965
The City of Dickens	1971	Alexander Welsh	Harvard University Press
Dickens' Rochester	1978	John Oliver	John Hallewell Publications
Dickens at Gad's Hill	1989	Alan S. Watts	Elvendon Press
The Book of London	1989	Michael Leapman	Weiderfield and Nicolson
Baedeker's Great Britain and Northern Ireland	1994	Baedeker Stuttgart	Prentice Hall Travel
London, A Social History	1994	Roy Porter	Harvard University Press
The Great Stink of London	1999	Stephen Halliday	Sutton Publishing Limited
Star-Spangled Eden	2000	James C. Simmons	Carroll & Graf Publishers, Inc, New York
London: The Biography	2000	Peter Ackroyd	Anchor Books, New York
A Reader's Guide to Writer's London	2005	Ian Cunningham	Prion Books Ltd
Walking Dickensian London	2005	Richard Jones	Interlink Books
Newgate - London's Prototype of Hell	2006	Stephen Halliday	Sutton Publishing
The Ghost Map	2006	Steven Johnson	Penguin Books Limited
London: A Life in Maps	2006	Peter Whitfield	British Library
Dickens on France	2007	Edit. John Edmondson	Interlink Books
Charles Dickens's London	2010	Andrew Sanders	Robert Hale Limited
London Under	2011	Peter Ackroyd	Chatto and Windus
Dickens and the Workhouse	2012	Ruth Richardson	Oxford University Press
Dickens: London into Kent	2013	Peter Clark	Armchair Traveler at the bookHaus
London Fog-The Biography	2015	Christine L. Corton	Belknap-Harvard
Mansions of Misery: A Biography of the Marshalsea Debtors' Prison	2016	Jerry White	Penguin Random House
Gunpowder, Apples and Cement: The story of an English country home	2020	Evelyn Cook	Conrad Press
Dickensland: The Curious History of Dickens's London	2023	Lee Jackson	Yale University Press

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Title	Date	Author	Publisher
London Labour and the London Poor	1851 (2008 edition)	Henry Mayhew	Wordsworth
Daily Life in Victorian England	1975	Christopher Hibbert	American Heritage Publishing Co.
Parallel Lives - Five Victorian Marriages	1983	Phyllis Rose	Alfred A. Knopf Inc.
Death, Dissection and the Destitute	1987	Ruth Richardson	University of Chicago Press
What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew	1993	Daniel Pool	Simon and Schuster
Victorian London Street Life	1994	John Thomson	Dover Publications Inc, New York
The Hanging Tree	1994	V.A.C. Gatrell	Oxford University Press
Dickens Fir Coat and Charlottes Unanswered Letters	1997	Daniel Pool	HarperCollins Publishers
Palaces of Pleasure	2019	Lee Jackson	Yale University Press

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Title	Date	Author	Publisher
Dickens and His Illustrators	1899	Frederic G. Kitton
Scenes and Characters from the Works of Charles Dickens	1908	Fred Barnard, Hablot Browne, Others	Chapman and Hall, London
The Charles Dickens Originals	1912	Edwin Pugh	Charles Scribner's Sons - New York
Phiz-Illustrations from the Novels of Charles Dickens	1956	Albert Johannsen	University of Chicago Press
Victorian Book Illustration	1973	Geoffrey Wakeman	Gale Research Company
George Cruikshank	1992	Edited by Robert L. Patten	Princeton University Press
Dickens and Phiz	1978	Michael Steig	Indiana University Press
Phiz-The Man Who Drew Dickens	2004	Valerie Browne Lester	Pimlico

Title	Date	Author	Publisher
The Annotated Christmas Carol	1976	Michael Patrick Hearn	Avenel Books
The Christmas Carol Trivia Book	1994	Paul Sammon	Citidel Press, Carol Publishing Group
The Annotated Christmas Carol	2004	Michael Patrick Hearn	W.W. Norton and Company, Inc
Christmas-A Candid History	2007	Bruce David Forbes	University of California Press
The Man Who Invented Christmas	2008	Les Standiford	Crown Publishers New York
Dickens and Christmas	2017	Lucinda Hawksley	Pen and Sword

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Title	Date	Author	Publisher
The English Novel	1954	Walter Allen	E.P. Dutton & Co, New York
Charles Dickens and His Publishers	1978	Robert L. Patten	The Dickens Project

Title	Date	Author	Publisher
Charles Dickens as a reader	1872	Charles Kent	Chapman and Hall, London
Charles Dickens as I Knew Him	1887	George Dolby	Cornell University Library
Under the Management of Mr Charles Dickens	1966	Robert Louis Brannan	Cornell University Press

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Title	Date	Author	Publisher
The Speeches of Charles Dickens 1841-1870	1884	Richard Herne Shepherd	London: Chatto and Windus, Piccadilly
The Dickens Encyclopedia	1924	Arthur L. Hayward	Chartwell Books Inc
The Dickens Dictionary	1928	Philip/Gadd	Crescent Books
Hard Times-Norton Critical Edition	1966	Edited by George Ford and Sylvère Monod	W.W. Norton and Company
The Dickens Encyclopedia	1973	Michael and Mollie Hardwick	Wordsworth Editions Ltd
The Dickens Index	1988	Nicolas Bentley, Michael Slater, Nina Burgis	Oxford University Press
Dictionary of British Literary Characters: 18th and 19th Century Novels	1993	Edited by John R. Greenfield	Facts on File Inc
Everyone in Dickens Vol 1-3	1995	George Newlin	Greenwood Press
A Dickens Glossary for American Readers	1996	Fred Levit	Garland Publishing Inc.
Oxford Reader's Companion to Dickens	1999	Paul Schlicke	Oxford University Press, New York
Charles Dickens A to Z: The Essential Reference to His Life & Work	1999	Paul Davis	Penguin Books
Hard Times-Norton Critical Edition	2001	Edited by Fred Kaplan and Sylvère Monod	W.W. Norton and Company
The Cambridge Companion to Charles Dickens	2001	Edited by John O. Jordan	Cambridge University Press
The London Encyclopaedia	2008	Weinreb, Hibbert, Keay, Keay	Macmillan London Limited
The Oxford Companion to Charles Dickens	2011	Paul Schlicke	Oxford University Press, New York
The Dickens Dictionary	2012	John Sutherland	Icon Books LTD
The Encyclopedia of British Film	2013	Brian McFarlane, Anthony Slide	Manchester University Press
The Mystery of Edwin Drood: Charles Dickens' Unfinished Novel and Our Endless Attempts to End It	2018	Pete Orford	Pen and Sword Books Ltd

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Title	Date	Author	Publisher
The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol 1 1820-1839	1965	Editors: Madeline House, Graham Storey	The Clarendon Press, Oxford
The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol 2 1840-1841	1969	Editors: Madeline House, Graham Storey	The Clarendon Press, Oxford
The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol 3 1842-1843	1974	Editors: Madeline House, Graham Storey, Kathleen Tillotson	The Clarendon Press, Oxford
The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol 4 1844-1846	1977	Editor: Kathleen Tillotson	The Clarendon Press, Oxford
The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol 10 1862-1864	1998	Editor: Graham Storey	The Clarendon Press, Oxford
The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol 11 1865-1867	1999	Editor: Graham Storey	The Clarendon Press, Oxford
The Letters of Charles Dickens 1833-1870	1903	Georgina Hogarth, Mamie Dickens	Kessinger Publishing's Rare Reprints
The Selected Letters of Charles Dickens	2012	Edited by Jenny Hartley	Oxford University Press

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Title	Date	Author	Publisher
Sketches by Boz	1987	Charles Dickens	Oxford University Press
The Pickwick Papers	1987	Charles Dickens	Oxford University Press
Oliver Twist	1987	Charles Dickens	Oxford University Press
Nicholas Nickleby	1987	Charles Dickens	Oxford University Press
Master Humpfrey's Clock, A Child's History of England	1987	Charles Dickens	Oxford University Press
The Old Curiosity Shop	1987	Charles Dickens	Oxford University Press
Barnaby Rudge	1987	Charles Dickens	Oxford University Press
Martin Chuzzlewit	1987	Charles Dickens	Oxford University Press
Christmas Books	1987	Charles Dickens	Oxford University Press
Christmas Stories	1987	Charles Dickens	Oxford University Press
American Notes, Pictures from Italy	1987	Charles Dickens	Oxford University Press
Dombey and Son	1987	Charles Dickens	Oxford University Press
David Copperfield	1987	Charles Dickens	Oxford University Press
Bleak House	1987	Charles Dickens	Oxford University Press
Hard Times	1987	Charles Dickens	Oxford University Press
Little Dorrit	1987	Charles Dickens	Oxford University Press
A Tale of Two Cities	1987	Charles Dickens	Oxford University Press
Great Expectations	1987	Charles Dickens	Oxford University Press
Our Mutual Friend	1987	Charles Dickens	Oxford University Press
The Mystery of Edwin Drood	1987	Charles Dickens	Oxford University Press
The Uncommercial Traveller, Reprinted Pieces	1987	Charles Dickens	Oxford University Press

Title	Date	Author	Publisher
The Book of Household Management	1861	Mrs Isabella Beeton	S.O. Beeton-London
Jerry Thomas' Bar-tender Guide	1962	Jerry Thomas	Dick & Fitzgerald, New York
The Story of My Life	1904	Helen Keller	Houghton Mifflin Company
The Letters of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Vol II 1837-1843	1966	Editor: Andrew Hilen	The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press - Cambridge, Massachusetts
How to Read a Book	1972	Mortimer J. Adler and Charles Van Doren	Touchstone-Simon and Schuster
The Mystery of Edwin Drood	1988	Charles Dickens, Introduction by Angus Wilson	Penguin Books USA
Kings and Queens of England and Scotland	1990	Plantagenet Somerset Fry	Grove Weiderfield
George Eliot: The Last Victorian	1999	Kathryn Hughes	Farrar, Straus and Giroux
The Pickwick Papers	2000	Mark Wormald - Editor	Penguin Classics
Persuasion	2003	Jane Austen	Penguin Classics
Paul McCartney: The Lyrics 1956 to the Present	2021	Paul McCartney	Liveright Publishing Corporation

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