Household Words

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Household Words was a 19th-century English weekly literary magazine edited by Charles Dickens, featuring fiction, journalism, and social commentary.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Victorian periodical
literary magazine
weekly magazine
aim to blend entertainment with moral and social instruction
alsoPublished Christmas numbers
containedWork Hard Times
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
editor Charles Dickens
editorialFocus improving literature for the middle classes
social reform
endPublicationDate 1859
firstIssuePrice two pence
format miscellany of short pieces
founder Charles Dickens
genre fiction
journalism
social commentary
hasISSN 0950-1732
language English
mediaType print
notableContributor Eliza Lynn Linton
Elizabeth Gaskell
George Augustus Sala
Harriet Martineau
Wilkie Collins
notableEditor Charles Dickens
originalPublisherLocation London, England
surface form: London
ownedBy Charles Dickens
placeOfPublication London, England
surface form: London
politicalOrientation liberal
printRunType mass-circulation weekly
publicationFrequency weekly
publicationPeriod 1850–1859
publisher Bradbury and Evans
reasonForCessation dispute between Charles Dickens and Bradbury and Evans
serializationOf Hard Times
startPublicationDate 1850-03-30
subjectMatter education
industrial society
public health
urban life
working-class conditions
successorPublication All the Year Round
targetAudience Victorian middle-class readers
timePeriod Victorian era
titleOrigin phrase from Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor

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Charles Dickens employer Household Words
All the Year Round predecessor Household Words
All the Year Round hasPart Household Words
this entity surface form: Household Words (incorporated material)
Hard Times firstPublishedIn Household Words
Little Dorrit originalSerialPublication Household Words
Charles Dickens Jr. employer Household Words
Wilkie Collins wroteFor Household Words
John Thornton firstPublicationMedium Household Words
Bradbury and Evans publishedWork Household Words