Volume 1 Plots, people and publishing particulars in the complete works, 1833-1849: sketches by Boz; the posthumous papers of the Pickwick Club; "The adventures of Oliver Twist"; "Sketches of Young Gentlemen"; "Sketeches of Young Couples"; "The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby"; "Master Humphrey's Clock"; "The Old Curiosity Shop"; "Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of Eighty"; American notes; "The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit"; "Pictures from Italy"; "Dealing with the Firm of Dombey and Son"; "The Life of Our Lord". Volume 2 Plots, people and publishing particulars in the complete works, 1850-1870: "The Personal History of David Copperfield"; "Bleak House"; "Hard Time for these Times"; "Little Dorrit"; "A Tale of Two Cities"; "The Uncommercial Traveller"; "Great Expectations"; "The Uncommerical Traveller"; "Our Mutual Friend"; "The Uncommercial Traveller"; "The Mystery of Edwin Drood". Volume 3 Characteristics and commentaries, tables and tabulations - a taxonomy: named characters - surnames; named characters - given names; parodic, archetypal and allegorical names, and sobriquets; named characters, male - occupations and vocations; named characters - relationships; named characters - miscellaneous categories; generic characters in fiction and non-fiction - occupations and vocations; historical figures; historical figures - occupations and vocations; biblical, literary, musical, and methological references; miscellaneous - associations, boroughs, companies, hostelries, houses, newspapers, prisons, schools and ships.
An essential reference book that offers complete coverage of all the characters created by or mentioned in Charles Dickens' 435 known works.
Until 1988, GEORGE NEWLIN spent his professional career combining activities in law and finance with volunteer service in the arts and serious avocational musical performance. At that time, he withdrew from most of his activities in venture capital and assets management and began developing his concept for a new kind of literary anthology, beginning with the works of Charles Dickens. He continues his pro bono services in the music field.
.,."an amazing achievement and one that will be of huge benefit to
all students of Dickens..."-Michael Slater University of London
author of Dickens and Women co-editor of The Dickens Index
.,."It should become as valuable to Dickens scholars as are the
concordances to the Bible and to Shakespeare to scholars in these
fields."-Gordon Philo independent scholar and author of The
Decoding of Edwin Drood
.,."With delicious hubris, George Newlin uses the word 'Everyone'
in his title. My guess is that hubris, for once, will be unmet by
nemesis. Everyone in Dickens, I feel sure, is destined to become an
essential reference book."-David Parker Curator, The Dickens House,
London
"Now, like an expert surveyor of Dickens' universe, George Newlin
has for the first time organized and charted almost its every
feature. Where there were black holes and missing stars, there is
now light. Almost every conceivable item of fact bearing on his
people is contained within Everyone in Dickens....Newlin has
created a reference work that supplants every other work that has
attempted to be a Dickens encyclopedia, dictionary, or
guide..."-Fred Kaplan Distinguished Professor City University of
New York author of Dickens: A Biography
"Newlin provides a gold mine of information about the 13,143 people
mentioned by Dickens in [all] the works that constitute his
literary output. This number includes both fictional characters and
historical figures, including references to Shakespeare or to
figures such as Oliver Cromwell... Extracting directly from the
text, Newlin presents characters in Dickens's own words, describing
not only the characters but their typical traits. All the favorite
Dickens characters are here, often accompanied by the earliest
illustrations (in most cases approved by Dickens himself)...The
ultimate source for 'anyone' in Dickens, highly recommended for
both scholarly research and Dickens lovers."-Choice
"Scholars have compiled Dickens encyclopedias and indexes before,
but nothing as grand and final in scope as this. Surely there is
some tiny character in some tiny fictional fragment that Newlin has
failed to include, list, cross-refer and expound upon? Well it
would be a sad person who'd look for it...Reading [this book] is
easy, because you start from the front of Volume One and turn pages
slowly, chuckling for about a year and a half...[Newlin] is, in
fact, a hero...Everyone in Dickens is an exciting, engaging and
deeply impressive reference work which renews one's awe for the
immensity of Dickens' creative imagination."-Lynne Truss Times
Education Supplement
?A new guide supplants every other work attempting to catalog
Dickens' staggering literary legacy and is invaluable in developing
an appreciation of his genius. It's actually four books compiled
and edited by George Newlin. No amount of space will be sufficient
to cover the number of features or to explain the complexities of
this book. There's something new every time the books are opened.
Suffice it to say you can delve as deeply into Dickens as you like
and the books will still be your best source.?-Big Reel
?A truly comprehensive reference to everyone and everything in
Dickens, arranged in the strictest practicable chronological order
for amateur as well as professional Dickensians who want to find
Dickens characters quickly, discover new ones, and have a trove of
accessible data on the man and his creations.?-Reference & Research
Book News
?Everyone in the title, already italicized in English convention,
ought to be underlined and printed in bold, for this definitive
compilation truly covers everyone in the complete Dickens corpus.
Newlin's guide to Dickens's characters distinguished itself from
efforts not only in its comprehensiveness, but also in its use of
passages from the works themselves to describe the
character....true Dickensians, whether scholars or fellow
enthusiasts like Newlin, will always want to turn first to
Everyone.?-Rettig on Reference
?In this work...a sixty-four-year-old white-bearded
pianist-singer-soldier-lawyer-banker-bibliophile named George
Newlin lists thirteen thousand one hundred and forty-three names of
characters, fictional and nonfictional, that appear somewhere in
the vast Charles Dickens oeuvre...He undertook the task as a
consequence of becoming obsessed with Dickens seven years ago...he
set out, as an amateur scholar, to devote himself to a project that
many Dickens academic scholars had dreamed of but had assumed to be
unthinkably difficult.?-Brendan Gill The New Yorker
?Newlin is the 'onlie begetter' of this extraordinary guide to
Dickens' teeming world....Volumes I and II of Everyone divid
Dickens' works into two periods, Volume I 1833-1849 and Volume I
1850-1870. Within these periods the works are taken chronologically
and each work entry follows a similar pattern....The list of
Pickwick characters (excluding the 'spear-carriers') takes up four
full pages. The equivalent list for Oliver Twist takes up one and a
half pages. This kind of at-a-glance literary statistic is one of
the great values of the reference work. It distills and organises
the whole vast corpus of Dicken's writings so that one can run
simple quantitative comparisons of this kind....one imagines the
editor of these volumes found endless refreshment in the materials
of his task....The readers of Everyone and Every Thing will surely
relish just this combination of compendious referencing and
delicious browsing that these volumes uniquely offer.?-The
Dickensian
?Newlin provides a gold mine of information about the 13,143 people
mentioned by Dickens in [all] the works that constitute his
literary output. This number includes both fictional characters and
historical figures, including references to Shakespeare or to
figures such as Oliver Cromwell... Extracting directly from the
text, Newlin presents characters in Dickens's own words, describing
not only the characters but their typical traits. All the favorite
Dickens characters are here, often accompanied by the earliest
illustrations (in most cases approved by Dickens himself)...The
ultimate source for 'anyone' in Dickens, highly recommended for
both scholarly research and Dickens lovers.?-Choice
?Scholars have compiled Dickens encyclopedias and indexes before,
but nothing as grand and final in scope as this. Surely there is
some tiny character in some tiny fictional fragment that Newlin has
failed to include, list, cross-refer and expound upon? Well it
would be a sad person who'd look for it...Reading [this book] is
easy, because you start from the front of Volume One and turn pages
slowly, chuckling for about a year and a half...[Newlin] is, in
fact, a hero...Everyone in Dickens is an exciting, engaging and
deeply impressive reference work which renews one's awe for the
immensity of Dickens' creative imagination.?-Lynne Truss Times
Education Supplement
"A new guide supplants every other work attempting to catalog
Dickens' staggering literary legacy and is invaluable in developing
an appreciation of his genius. It's actually four books compiled
and edited by George Newlin. No amount of space will be sufficient
to cover the number of features or to explain the complexities of
this book. There's something new every time the books are opened.
Suffice it to say you can delve as deeply into Dickens as you like
and the books will still be your best source."-Big Reel
"A truly comprehensive reference to everyone and everything in
Dickens, arranged in the strictest practicable chronological order
for amateur as well as professional Dickensians who want to find
Dickens characters quickly, discover new ones, and have a trove of
accessible data on the man and his creations."-Reference & Research
Book News
"Everyone in the title, already italicized in English convention,
ought to be underlined and printed in bold, for this definitive
compilation truly covers everyone in the complete Dickens corpus.
Newlin's guide to Dickens's characters distinguished itself from
efforts not only in its comprehensiveness, but also in its use of
passages from the works themselves to describe the
character....true Dickensians, whether scholars or fellow
enthusiasts like Newlin, will always want to turn first to
Everyone."-Rettig on Reference
"In this work...a sixty-four-year-old white-bearded
pianist-singer-soldier-lawyer-banker-bibliophile named George
Newlin lists thirteen thousand one hundred and forty-three names of
characters, fictional and nonfictional, that appear somewhere in
the vast Charles Dickens oeuvre...He undertook the task as a
consequence of becoming obsessed with Dickens seven years ago...he
set out, as an amateur scholar, to devote himself to a project that
many Dickens academic scholars had dreamed of but had assumed to be
unthinkably difficult."-Brendan Gill The New Yorker
"Newlin is the 'onlie begetter' of this extraordinary guide to
Dickens' teeming world....Volumes I and II of Everyone divid
Dickens' works into two periods, Volume I 1833-1849 and Volume I
1850-1870. Within these periods the works are taken chronologically
and each work entry follows a similar pattern....The list of
Pickwick characters (excluding the 'spear-carriers') takes up four
full pages. The equivalent list for Oliver Twist takes up one and a
half pages. This kind of at-a-glance literary statistic is one of
the great values of the reference work. It distills and organises
the whole vast corpus of Dicken's writings so that one can run
simple quantitative comparisons of this kind....one imagines the
editor of these volumes found endless refreshment in the materials
of his task....The readers of Everyone and Every Thing will surely
relish just this combination of compendious referencing and
delicious browsing that these volumes uniquely offer."-The
Dickensian
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