Charles Dickens' Australia: Selected Essays from Household Words 1850-1859

Charles Dickens is little celebrated as a journalist, yet his career spanned nearly 40 years. Starting as a court reporter, parliamentary newspaper columnist and theatre critic, he developed an instinct for injustice, humbug and charade. For 20 years he edited his own weekly journal, Household Words , later known as All the Year Round , publishing articles and stories designed to be interesting, entertaining and educational. Dickens had a keen interest in Australia and fortuitously began publish