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Dickens by Numbers: the Christmas Numbers of Household Words and All the Year Round
Dickens by Numbers: the Christmas Numbers of Household Words and All the Year Round Aine Helen McNicholas PhD University of York English May 2015 Abstract This thesis examines the short fiction that makes up the annual Christmas Numbers of Dickens’s journals, Household Words and All the Year Round. Through close reading and with reference to Dickens’s letters, contemporary reviews, and the work of his contributors, this thesis contends that the Christmas Numbers are one of the most remarkable and overlooked bodies of work of the second half of the nineteenth century. Dickens’s short fictions rarely receive sustained or close attention, despite the continuing commitment by critics to bring the whole range of Dickens’s career into focus, from his sketches and journalism, to his late public readings. Through readings of selected texts, this thesis will show that Dickens’s Christmas Number stories are particularly powerful and experimental examples of some of the deepest and most recurrent concerns of his work. They include, for example, three of his four uses of a child narrator and one of his few female narrators, and are concerned with childhood, memory, and the socially marginal figures and distinctive voices that are so characteristic of his longer work. But, crucially, they also go further than his longer work to thematise the very questions raised by their production, including anonymity, authorship, collaboration, and annual return. This thesis takes Dickens’s works as its primary focus, but it will also draw throughout on the work of his contributors, which appeared alongside Dickens’s stories in these Christmas issues. -
Thomas Morley and the Business of Music in Elizabethan England
THOMAS MORLEY AND THE BUSINESS OF MUSIC IN ELIZABETHAN ENGLAND by TERESA ANN MURRAY A thesis submitted to The University of Birmingham for the degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY Department of Music College of Arts and Law The University of Birmingham September 2010 University of Birmingham Research Archive e-theses repository This unpublished thesis/dissertation is copyright of the author and/or third parties. The intellectual property rights of the author or third parties in respect of this work are as defined by The Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988 or as modified by any successor legislation. Any use made of information contained in this thesis/dissertation must be in accordance with that legislation and must be properly acknowledged. Further distribution or reproduction in any format is prohibited without the permission of the copyright holder. ABSTRACT Thomas Morley’s family background in Norwich and his later life in London placed him amongst the educated, urban, middle classes. Rising literacy and improving standards of living in English cities helped to develop a society in which amateur music-making became a significant leisure activity, providing a market of consumers for printed recreational music. His visit to the Low Countries in 1591 allowed him to see at first hand a thriving music printing business. Two years later he set out to achieve an income from his own music, initially by publishing collections of light, English-texted, madrigalian vocal works. He broadened his activities by obtaining a monopoly for printed music in 1598 and then by entering into a partnership with William Barley to print music. -
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LIBRARY A T R A N S C R I P T OF THE OF THE 1554—1640 A.D. COMPANY OF bxATioNEKS OF LONDON; VOLUME lY.-TEXT. f ENTRIES OP BOOKS TO 3 NOVEMBER 1640. =\ CALLS ON THE LIVERY AND PROMOTIONS TO THE ASSISTANCE f TO 31 DECEMBER 1640. EDITED BY RDWAKD ARB E fi, Assoc. KIKC'S COIX. LONT^OT. : F.S^ / Editor of The First printed Etiglish New Testament, the English Reprints, and The first Three English Books on America. This Copy is the property of THE LIBEART OF COLUMBIA COLLEG I PRIVATELY T'HTNTED. LONDON: 1 MAT 1877. Koi'5-'l^ ^^ €P'r?^ TRANSCRIPT OF THE REGISTERS OF THE COMPANY OF STATIONERS OF LONDON. 1554 — 1640 A.D. VOLUME IV. T/iis Copy is numbered .^.M^OMJr..j£/MMy..., of «ie Comti^nif nf <^tationtt!S of Honlion. Volume K®* A FACSIMILE OF THE ORIGINAL SEAL OF THE COMPANY, FROM THE TRICKING IN THE COLLEGE OF ARMS, LONDON. TO THE PRESENT M'^%ttt, Wattrmg, wxii toistots OP THE WORSHIPFUL COMPANY OP THE STATIONERS OP LONDON, THIS TRANSCRIPT IS RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED. A FMIVATJELY FEINTED EDITION FOE LIBEARIES, COLLECTORS, AND SCHOLARS. A TRANSCRIPT OF THE REGISTERS OP THE* COMPANY OF STATIONEES OF LONDON, BETWEEN 1554—1640 A.D. Only TWO Hundred and Thirty Copies in all are printed. Of these, all surplus copies will be destroyed. SUBSCRIPTIONS TO 1 MAY 187 7. THIRTY LARGE PAPER TRANBQBIPTS, IN ROYAL QUARTO. 1 ... THE COMPA:NY OF STATIONERS OE LONDOI^, London, 2 HEKEY HTJTH, ESQ., Brince's Gate, London, 3 THE BRITISH MUSEUM LIBRARY, London, 4 THE BODLETA:N- LIBRARY, Oxford, 5 ..