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Cover -- Contents -- List of illustrations in the text -- List of plates -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Note on monetary values -- 1 Early years: from Portsmouth to Chatham, 1812-1822 -- 2 Early years: London, 1822-1827 -- 3 'The Copperfield days', 1828-1835 -- 4 Break-through year, 1836 -- 5 Editing Bentley's Magazine, 1836-1837 -- 6 Periodicals into novels, 1837-1839 -- 7 The Master Humphrey experiment, 1840-1841 -- 8 America brought to book, 1842 -- 9 'The turning-point of his career': England, Italy, England, 1842-1845 -- 10 An interlude: 'daily nooses' and the noose itself, 1846 -- 11 Dombey and other dealings, 1846-1848 -- 12 From Dombey to Copperfield, 1848-1849 -- 13 Interweaving and conducting: writing David Copperfield and beginning Household Words, 1849-1850 -- 14 The year of the Guild, 1850-1851 -- 15 Writing Bleak House, 1852-1853 -- 16 Writing 'For These Times', 1853-1854 -- 17 Writing Little Dorrit - among other things, 1855-1857 -- 18 Drama and dénouement: performing The Frozen Deep and finishing Little Dorrit, 1857 -- 19 Writing off a marriage, 1857-1858 -- 20 Stories into scripts: the public readings, 1858 -- 21 Serials, series and stories: writing for All the Year Round, 1859-1861 -- 22 Christmas numbers, public readings, and 'uncommercial' travels, 1861-1863 -- 23 Back to the 'big brushes': writing Our Mutual Friend, 1864-1865 -- 24 Last Christmas numbers, 1865-1867 -- 25 Writing, and reading, for America, 1867-1868 -- 26 Disappearances and deaths, 1868-1870 -- 27 Charles Dickens's explanations -- Abbreviations and select bibliography -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
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