Talk:Sketches by Boz

[Non-Fictional versus Fictional]

The claim that 'The material in the first three of these sections is non-fiction' needs to be corroborated by a scholarly source, especially since the fictionality or non-fictionality of Sketches by Boz as a whole has been debated by critics. Thea Holme, for example, observes that 'Boz is no objective reporter: the facts he presents are invested with his own reaction to them, and in some cases are lifted by his imagination into tragedy or fantasy' ('Introduction' to Sketches by Boz, London: Oxford University Press, 1957, p. viii).

--81.101.2.134 (talk) 16:47, 18 April 2013 (UTC)

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Hi there Loveless - thanks for contributing this page.

I have been into it and done four standard Wikipedia things:

• inserted links (by using double square brackets) to some likely other entries. Some of them turned out to exist, others didn't; well, that's something for someone to provide some time. If you don't do this, your nice new page is apt to end up as an Orphan.
• made the formatting more the way that articles are usually done (e.g. name of topic in bold in the first line)
• deleted your signature - articles in Wikipedia are not signed.
• added the boilerplate text about stubs - if you put this at the end of a short article, it encourages others to go and improve it.

All this is just tidying - you did the essential bit by writing the article. Welcome to Wikipedia!

seglea 05:24, 13 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Original parution

The Monthly Magazine

• December, 1833 : A Dinner at Poplar Walk (by Anonymous) --> Mr. Minns and His Cousin
• January, 1834 : Mrs Joseph Porter Over the Way (by Anonymous)
• February, 1834 : Horatio Sparkins (by Anonymous)
• April, 1834 : The Blomsbury Christening (by Anonymous)
• May, 1834 : The Boarding House (part 1) (by Anonymous)
• August, 1834 : The Boarding House (part 2) (by Boz)
• October, 1834 : The Stream Excursion (by Boz)
• January, 1835 : Passage in the Life of Mr. Watkins Tottle (by Boz)

The Evening Chronicle

(with general heading of Sketches of London and signed by Boz)

1. January 31, 1835 : Hackney Coach Stands
2. February 7, 1835 : Gin Shop
3. February 19, 1835 : Early Coaches
4. February 28, 1835 : The Parich --> The Beadle—The Parish Engine—The Schoolmaster
5. March 7, 1835 : The House
6. March 17, 1835 : London Recreations
7. April 7, 1835 : Public Dinners
8. April 11, 1835 : Bellamy's --> A Parliamentary Sketch With a Few Portraits --> A Parliamentary Sketch
9. April 16, 1835 : Greenwich Fair
10. April 23, 1835 : Thoughts About Peoples
11. May 9, 1835 : Astley's
12. May 19, 1835 : Our Parish --> The Curate—The Old Lady—The Captain
13. June 6, 1835 : The River
14. June 18; 1835 : Our Parish --> The Four Sisters
15. June 30,1835 : The Pawnbroker's Shop
16. July 14, 1835 : Our Parish --> The Election for Beadle
17. July 21, 1835 : The Streets—Morning --> The Streets by Morning
18. July 28, 1835 : Our Parish—Mr Bungs narrative --> The Broker's Man
19. August 11, 1835 : Private Theatres
20. August 20, 1835 : Our Parish --> The Ladies' Societies
21. September 26, 1836 : Meditations on Monmouth Street (also in Morning Chronicle, September 24)
22. October 5, 1836 : Scotland Yard (also in Morning Chronicle, October 4)
23. October 12, 1836 : Doctors' Commons (also in Morning Chronicle, October 11)
24. October 26, 1836 : Vauxhall Gardens by Day (also in Morning Chronicle, October 26)

Bell's Life in London and Sporting Chronicle

(with general heading of Scenes and Characters and signed by Tibbs)

1. September 27, 1835 : Seven Dials
2. October 4, 1835 : Miss Evans and “The Eagle”
3. October 11, 1835 : The Dancing Academy)
4. October 18, 1835 : Making a Night of it
5. October 25, 1835 : Love and Oysters --> Misplaced Attachment of Mr. John Dounce
6. November 1, 1835 : Some Account of an Omnibus Cad --> The Last Cab Driver, and the First Omnibus Cad
7. November 22, 1835 : The Vocal Dressmaker --> The Mistaken Milliner
8. November 29, 1835 : The Prisoner's Van
9. December 13, 1835 : The Parlour --> The Parlour Orator
10. December 27, 1835 : Christmas Festivities --> A Christmas Dinner
11. January 3, 1836 : The New Year
12. January 17, 1836 : The Streets at Night --> The Streets by Night --> The streets—Night

Sketch by Boz (vol. 1 and 2; 1836)

• Shops and Their Tenants
• A Visit to Newgate
• Brokers and Marine-Store Shops
• The Black Veil
• Shabby Genteel People
• The Great Windlebury Duel
• Omnibuses
• Sentiment

The Library of Fiction, or, Family Story Teller

• April, 1836 : The Tuggs's at Ramsgate (by Boz)
• June, 1836 : A Litle Talk About Spring and the Sweeps (by Boz) --> The First of May

Sketch by Boz. The Second serie; 1837

• Criminal Courts
• Our Next-Door Neighbours
• The Hospital Patient
• The Drunkard's Death

--ChanurBe (talk) 13:53, 18 April 2012 (UTC)

Minor edit to the lead

I've changed "non-fictional" (which suggests the writings might be true) to "non-narrative pen-portraits" which is less misleading and (I hope) unexceptionable. For this reason, I've removed the "citation needed" tag. (Peter Ells (talk) 21:50, 26 January 2014 (UTC))

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Scotland Yard

Under Book Contents the link to Scotland Yard is to Scotland Yard rather than the Great Scotland Yard article. The former article refers to both a building that didn't exist in Dicken's time and as a metonym for the HQ of the Metropolitan Police. In wikisource:Sketches by Boz/Scotland Yard the text mentions nothing about police, but describes the place as a very small-tract of land, bounded on one side by the river Thames, on the other by the gardens of Northumberland House: abutting at one end on the bottom of Northumberland-street, at the other on the back of Whitehall-place. The place names seem consistent with this map

Premises occupied by the Metropolitan Police from 1837.

used in the Great Scotland Yard article. Should the link point to Great Scotland Yard instead? Autarch (talk) 12:51, 8 July 2020 (UTC)

The link is just misleading, nothing else. And there existed no such street as Great Scoltland Yard at the time of Dickens. Yes, D. mentions a police station, but just an ordinary one, which has no connection to the later ""Scotland Yard". Please, read the book once more and then come back again. My pledge: please no link vom the chapter Scotland Yard in sketches by Boz to anything which did not exist in the 1830s! Please, don't!! thank you. --Kerchemer (talk) 00:16, 24 July 2020 (UTC)