Books written by Catherine Waters

  • Dickens and the Politics of the Family
    Dickens and the Politics of the Family

    (3) The hypocrisy of the elderly female's maternal pretensions (she is significantly named Mrs Mann) is clearly signalled in her expertise as an 'experimental philosopher' and her obsequious behaviour towards Mr Bumble.

  • Dickens and the Imagined Child
    Dickens and the Imagined Child

    When Bumble comes to transfer him from Mrs Mann's baby farm to the workhouse, “Oliver was about to say that he would go along with anybody with great readiness,” until he sees Mrs Mann shaking her fist at him. He knows what he must say: ...

  • The Oxford Handbook of Charles Dickens
    The Oxford Handbook of Charles Dickens

    In the summer of 1857 Dickens met the Ternan family of actresses when they took part in a Manchester performance of his play ... 46 Michael Slater, The Great Charles Dickens Scandal (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2012).

  • The Oxford Handbook of Charles Dickens
    The Oxford Handbook of Charles Dickens

    Hugh Craig and Arthur F. Kinney, Shakespeare, Computers, and the Mystery of Authorship (Cambridge: Cambridge University ... 'To UNKNOWN CORRESPONDENT, [1850–8 JUNE 1870]', The Charles Dickens Letters Project, accessed 20 August 2016, ...

  • Special Correspondence and the Newspaper Press in Victorian Print Culture, 1850–1886
    Special Correspondence and the Newspaper Press in Victorian Print Culture, 1850–1886

    Indeed, as Susan Shelangoskie has demonstrated, Russell's book was subsequently 'adapted and integrated' into R. M. Ballantyne's 1883 adventure novel, The Battery and the Boiler: Adventures in the Laying of Submarine Electric Cables.82 ...

  • Commodity Culture in Dickens's Household Words: The Social Life of Goods
    Commodity Culture in Dickens's Household Words: The Social Life of Goods

    Locating the journal and its distinctive handling of non-fictional prose in relation to other contemporary periodicals and forms of print culture, this book demonstrates the role that Household Words in particular, and the Victorian press ...

  • Special Correspondence and the Newspaper Press in Victorian Print Culture, 1850-1886
    Special Correspondence and the Newspaper Press in Victorian Print Culture, 1850-1886

    This book analyses the significance of the special correspondent as a new journalistic role in Victorian print culture, within the context of developments in the periodical press, throughout the second half of the nineteenth century.