Editions of the Letters
The Letters of Charles Dickens, edited by his Sister-in-Law and his Eldest Daughter, 3 vols. (London: Chapman & Hall, 1880–2).
The Letters, Speeches, Plays and Poems of Charles Dickens, ed. Frederic Kitton (New York: The University Society, 1908).
The Letters of Charles Dickens, ed. Walter Dexter, 3 vols. (Bloomsbury: Nonesuch Press, 1938).
Selected Letters of Charles Dickens, ed. David Paroissien (London: Macmillan, 1985).
The British Academy Pilgrim Edition: The Letters of Charles Dickens, 12 vols. (Oxford: Clarendon Press):
Volume One, 1820–1839, ed. Madeline House and Graham Storey, 1965.
Volume Two, 1840–1841, ed. Madeline House and Graham Storey, 1969.
Volume Three, 1842–1843, ed. Madeline House, Graham Storey, and Kathleen Tillotson, 1974.
Volume Four, 1844–1846, ed. Kathleen Tillotson, 1977.
Volume Five, 1847–1849, ed. Graham Storey and K. J. Fielding, 1981.
Volume Six, 1850–1852, ed. Graham Storey, Kathleen Tillotson, and Nina Burgis, 1988.
Volume Seven, 1853–1855, ed. Graham Storey, Kathleen Tillotson, and Angus Easson, 1993.
Volume Eight, 1856–1858, ed. Graham Storey and Kathleen Tillotson, 1995.
Volume Nine, 1859–1861, ed. Graham Storey, 1997.
Volume Ten, 1862–1864, ed. Graham Storey, 1998.
Volume Eleven, 1865–1867, ed. Graham Storey, 1999.
Volume Twelve, 1868–1870, ed. Graham Storey, 2002.
Other Writing, Biography, and Relevant Criticism
Ackroyd, Peter, Dickens (London: Sinclair Stevenson, 1990).
Andrews, Malcolm, Charles Dickens and his Performing Selves: Dickens and the Public Readings (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006).
Bodenheimer, Rosemarie, Knowing Dickens (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2007).
Collins, Philip (ed.), Dickens: The Critical Heritage (London: Routledge, 1971).
——(ed.), Dickens, Interviews and Recollections, 2 vols. (London: Macmillan, 1981).
Easson, Angus, ‘Letters of Dickens’, in Paul Schlicke (ed.), Oxford Reader’s Companion to Dickens (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999), 327–31.
Fielding, K. J. (ed.), The Speeches of Charles Dickens (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1960).
Forster, John, The Life of Charles Dickens (3 vols. 1872–4), ed. J. W. T. Ley (London: Cecil Palmer, 1928).
Hartley, Jenny, Charles Dickens and the House of Fallen Women (London: Methuen, 2008).
House, Humphry, ‘A New Edition of Dickens’s Letters’, The Listener, 18 Oct. 1951, reprinted in All in Due Time: The Collected Essays and Broadcast Talks of Humphry House (London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1955), 221–9.
Johnson, Edgar, Charles Dickens: His Tragedy and Triumph, 2 vols. (Boston: Little Brown, 1952).
Johnson, Edgar, ‘The Art of Biography: An Interview with Edgar Johnson’, Dickens Studies Annual, 8 (New York: AMS Press, 1980), 1–38.
Kaplan, Fred, Dickens and Mesmerism (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1975).
Lohrli, Anne, ‘Household Words’: A Weekly Journal 1850–1859, Conducted by Charles Dickens (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1973).
Oppenlander, Ella Ann, Dickens’ ‘All the Year Round’: Descriptive Index and Contributor List (Troy, NY: Whitston Publishing Co., 1984).
Paroissien, David, ‘ “Faithfully Yours, Charles Dickens”: The Epistolary Art of the Inimitable’, in David Paroissien (ed.), A Companion to Charles Dickens (Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2008), 33–46.
Sanders, Andrew, Authors in Context: Charles Dickens (Oxford: Oxford World’s Classics, 2003).
Slater, Michael, Dickens and Women (London: J. M. Dent, 1983).
——Charles Dickens (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009).
——and Drew, John (eds.), Dickens’ Journalism, 4 vols. (London: J. M. Dent, 1994–2000).
Tomalin, Claire, The Invisible Woman: The Story of Nelly Ternan and Charles Dickens (London: Viking, 1990).
——Charles Dickens, A Life (London: Viking, 2011).