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Excerpt: "My object in writing most of these papers—especially those collected under the general heads of 'Sketches of Character' and 'Social Grievances'—was to present what I had observed and what I had thought, in the lightest and the least pretentious form; to address the public (if I could) with something vi of the ease of letter writing, and something of the familiarity of friendly talk. The literary Pulpit appeared to me at that time—as it appears to me still—to be rather overcrowded with the Preachers of Lay Sermons. Views of life and society to set us thinking penitently in some cases, or doubting contemptuously in others, were, I thought, quite plentiful enough already. More freshness and novelty of appeal to the much-lectured and much-enduring reader, seemed to lie in views which might put us on easier terms with ourselves and with others; and which might encourage us to laugh good-humouredly over some of the lighter eccentricities of character, and some of the more palpable absurdities of custom—without any unfair perversion of truth, or any needless descent to the lower regions of vulgarity and caricature. With that idea, all the lighter contributions to these Miscellanies were originally written; and with that idea they are now again dismissed from my desk, to win what approval they may from new readers."
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GenreGeneral Fiction, Literary Classics
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Publish dateFeb 17, 2021
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Vol 1.
2PREFACE.
3SKETCHES OF CHARACTER.—I. TALK-STOPPERS.
4SOCIAL GRIEVANCES.—I. A JOURNEY IN SEARCH OF NOTHING.
5NOOKS AND CORNERS OF HISTORY. I. A QUEEN'S REVENGE.
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6SOCIAL GRIEVANCES.—II. A PETITION TO THE NOVEL-WRITERS.
7FRAGMENTS OF PERSONAL EXPERIENCE.—I. Laid up in lodgings.
8SKETCHES OF CHARACTER.—II. A SHOCKINGLY RUDE ARTICLE.
9NOOKS AND CORNERS OF HISTORY. II. THE GREAT (FORGOTTEN) INVASION.
10CURIOSITIES OF LITERATURE.—I. THE UNKNOWN PUBLIC.
11SOCIAL GRIEVANCES.—III. GIVE US ROOM!
12CURIOSITIES OF LITERATURE.—II. PORTRAIT OF AN AUTHOR, PAINTED BY HIS PUBLISHER.
13FRAGMENTS OF PERSONAL EXPERIENCE.—II. MY BLACK MIRROR.
14SKETCHES OF CHARACTER.—III. MRS. BADGERY.
15Vol 2.
16CASES WORTH LOOKING AT.—I. MEMOIRS OF AN ADOPTED SON.[A]
17SKETCHES OF CHARACTER.—IV. THE BACHELOR BEDROOM.
18NOOKS AND CORNERS OF HISTORY. III. A REMARKABLE REVOLUTION.
19DOUGLAS JERROLD.[B]
20SKETCHES OF CHARACTER.—V. PRAY EMPLOY MAJOR NAMBY! [A Privileged Communication From A Lady in Distress.]
21CASES WORTH LOOKING AT.—II. THE POISONED MEAL. [From The Records of the French Courts.]
22SKETCHES OF CHARACTER.-VI. MY SPINSTERS. [Introduced by an Innocent Old Man.]
23DRAMATIC GRUB STREET.[D] EXPLORED IN TWO LETTERS.
24TO THINK, OR BE THOUGHT FOR?
25SOCIAL GRIEVANCES.—IV. SAVE ME FROM MY FRIENDS.
26CASES WORTH LOOKING AT.—III. THE CAULDRON OF OIL.
27BOLD WORDS BY A BACHELOR.
28SOCIAL GRIEVANCES.—V. MRS. BULLWINKLE.
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