The
Chronicle
of the Drum rptd with the Ballads in Miscellanies, vol.
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v13
The Acting National Drama.
Vol.
x.
[1843.
]
1851. Belphegor, the Mountebank; or Pride of Birth. The Acting National
Drama. Vol. xvII. (1853. ]
1851. The Man of Law. The Acting National Drama. Vol. xvii. [1851. ]
Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (1856–1900)
(1904, Paris. ) Salomé. Drame en un Acte. Paris, 1893. With sixteen
Illustrations by Aubrey Beardsley. Paris, 1907.
Salomé. Translated from the French. Pictured by Aubrey Beardsley.
1894. With the two suppressed plates and extra titlepage. Preface
by Ross, Robert. 1907 [1906). 1906 and 1908.
1892. Lady Windermere's Fan. A play about a good woman. 1893.
1893. A Woman of No Importance. [1894. ]
1895. The Importance of being Earnest. A trivial comedy for serious
people. 1899.
1895. An Ideal Husband. 1899. A new acting version. [Ed. Ross, Robert B. ]
[1914. )
Vera; or, The Nihilists. Privately printed. 1902.
The Duchess of Padua. [With a prefatory letter by Ross, Robert. ] 1907.
A dramatised version of The Picture of Dorian Gray was given during
1913.
See, also, post, bibliography to chap. III, vol. xiv.
William Gorman Wills
1872. Charles the First. 1873.
1874. Jane Shore.
? . Marie Stuart.
1878. Olivia. (An adaptation of Goldsmith's The Vicar of Wakefield. )
1883. Claudian. [Dialogue only by Wills; story and construction by
Henry Herman. )
1885. Faust. (1886. ]
Wills, F. W. G. Wills. 1898.
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]
Nineteenth-Century Drama
525
The following adaptations obtained great success and had a considerable
influence on the drama of the period :
1861. A Scrap of Paper. (Adapted from Sardou's Les Pattes de Mouche,
by J, P. Simpson. )
1863. The Duke's Motto. (By John Brougham, founded on Paul Feval's
Le Bossu. )
1867. A Quiet Rubber. (Adapted by C. H. Coghlan from La Partie de
Picquet. )
1878. Diplomacy. (By B. C. Stephenson and Clement Scott; a version of
Sardou's Dora. There have been several notable revivals. )
G. A. B.
CHAPTER IX
THACKERAY
There is a complete bibliography of Thackeray's writings, arranged in
chronological order, in Melville, L. , William Makepeace Thackeray, vol. II,
pp. 145-376, which supersedes previous bibliographies.
A. PRINCIPAL WORKS WITH MISCELLANEOUS FICTION
The Professor. A Tale. Ptd in Bentley's Miscellany, Sept. 1837; rptd in
Comic Tales and Sketches, vol. 11, 1841, as by Goliah Gahagan, and in
A Shabby Genteel Story, etc. , New York, 1852, 1853.
The Yellowplush Correspondence. Ptd in Fraser's Magazine (8 nos. ), Nov.
1837-August 1838, without Mr Yellowplush's Ajew. Philadelphia, 1838.
Rptd in Comic Tales and Sketches, vol. 1, with Fashnable Fax and Polite
Annygoats omitted, and Mr Yellowplush's Ajew (August 1838) and the
epistle to sir Edward Lytton Bulwer, bart. (Epistles to the Literati,
no. XIII, Jan. 1840) added, 1841. Also, in Miscellanies, Prose and Verse,
vol. 11, 1856, under the title Memoirs of Mr C. J, Yellowplush, and in a
separate vol. with The Diary of C. Jeames de la Pluche, Esq. , 1856.
Some Passages in the Life of Major Gahagan. Begun in The New Monthly
Magazine, Feb. 1838; continued as Historical Recollections by Major
Gahagan, March 1838, and as Major Gahagan's Historical Re-
miniscences (3 nos. ), Nov. 1838-Feb. 1839. Reminiscences of Major
Gahagan. 1839. Rptd as Some Passages in the Life of Major Gabagan
in Comic Tales and Sketches, vol. II, 1841, and as The Tremendous
Adventures of Major Gahagan in Miscellanies, vol. 1, 1855.
Catherine, a Story, by Ikey Solomons, Esq. , junior. Ptd in Fraser (7 nos. ),
May 1839-Feb. 1840. Not rptd until 1869 (Library edn, vol. xxII).
Stubbs's Calendar; or, the Fatal Boots. 1839. (Cruikshank's Comic Annual,
ill. by Cruikshank, George. ) Rptd in Comic Tales and Sketches, vol. 11,
1841. New York, 1850. Also, as The Fatal Boots, in Miscellanies, vol. I,
and with Cox's Diary, 1855.
The Bedford Row Conspiracy. Ptd in The New Monthly (3 nos. ), Jan. -April
1840. Rptd with A Shabby Genteel Story, New York, 1852, 1853, in
Comic Tales and Sketches, vol. 1, 1841, in Miscellanies, vol. 111, 1856, and
with A Little Dinner at Timmins's, 1856.
A Shabby Genteel Story. Ptd in Fraser (4 nos. ), June-Oct. 1840. With The
Professor, etc. , New York, 1852, 1853. Rptd in Miscellanies, vol. iv, and
separately, 1857.
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526
[CH.
Bibliography
The Paris Sketch Book, by Mr Titmarsh. 2 vols. 1840. The contents
included some miscellaneous sketches, already ptd, with new matter.
An Essay on the Genius of George Cruikshank. 1840. Rptd from The
Westminster Review, June 1840.
Barber Cox and the Cutting of his Comb. 1840. (Cruikshank's Comic
Annual, ill. by Cruikshank, George. ) Rptd as Cox's Diary, in Miscel-
lanies, vol. 1, and with The Fatal Boots, 1855.
The History of Samuel Titmarsh and the Great Hoggarty Diamond. Ptd
in Fraser (4 nos. ), Sept. -Dec. 1841. As The Great Hoggarty Diamond.
New York, 1848. Under original title. 1849. Rptd in Miscellanies.
vol. iv, 1857.
The Second Funeral of Napoleon and The Chronicle of the Drum. 1841.
The Chronicle of the Drum rptd with the Ballads in Miscellanies, vol. 1,
1855.
Sultan Stork; being the One Thousand and Second Night, translated from
the Persian by Major G. OʻG. Gahagan, H. E. I. C. S. Ptd in Ainsworth's
Magazine (2 nos. ), Feb. and May 1842. Rptd in Sultan Stork, and other
Stories and Sketches . . . now first collected [ed. Shepherd, R. H. ], 1887,
and in vol. xx of the American collected edn, Boston, 1889.
The Fitz-Boodle Papers. Ptd in Fraser (5 nos. ), June 1842-Feb. 1843
(viz. Fitz-Boodle's Confession, June 1842; Professions, by George Fitz-
Boodle, July 1842; Fitz-Boodle's Confessions: Miss Löwe, Dorothea,
Ottilia, August 1842, Jan. , Feb. 1843). The Confessions of Fitz-Boodle;
and Some Passages in the Life of Major Gahagan. New York, 1852.
Rptd as The Fitz-Boodle Papers, without Miss Löwe, Dorothea and
Ottilia, in Miscellanies, vol. iv, and with Men's Wives, 1857. Dorothea
and Ottilia were rptd with the rest in the Library edn, 1869, vol. XXII.
Miss Löwe was rptd separately in vol. xxii, 1885, and collected with the
rest in the pocket edn, 1887.
Men's Wives. Ptd in Fraser (8 nos. ), March-Nov. 1843, under the general
title Confessions of George Fitz-Boodle; Men's Wives (viz. I Mr and
Mrs Frank Berry, March; II The Ravenswing, April-June, Aug. , Sept. ;
III Dennis Haggarty's Wife, Oct. ; IV The 's Wife, Nov. ). New
York, 1852. Rptd (without IV) in Miscellanies, vol. iv, and with The
Fitz-Boodle Papers, 1857.
Bluebeard's Ghost, by M. A. Titmarsh. Ptd in Fraser, October 1843. Rptd
in Early and Late Papers, Boston, 1867, and collected in the Library edn,
vol. XXIII, 1885.
The Irish Sketch-Book, by Mr M. A. Titmarsh. 2 vols. 1843.
The Luck of Barry Lyndon, a Romance of the Last Century, by Fitz-Boodle.
Ptd in Fraser (12 nos. ), Jan. -Dec. 1844. 2 vols. New York, 1852. Rptd
as Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq. , in Miscellanies, vol. 11, and as
The Memoirs, etc. , 1856.
The History of the Next French Revolution, from a forthcoming history of
Europe. Ptd in Punch (9 nos. ), 24 Feb. -20 April 1844. See Library edn.
A Legend of the Rhine, by M. A. Titmarsh. Ptd in Cruikshank's Table-
Book (7 nos. ), June-Dec. 1845. With Jeames's Diary and Rebecca and
Rowena. New York, 1853. Rptd in Miscellanies, vol. III, and (in Burles-
ques) with Rebecca and Rowena, 1856.
Jeames's Diary. Ptd in Punch (12 nos. ), 8 Nov. 1845–7 Feb. 1846. (Jeames's
Diary; or Sudden Wealth, by M. A. Titmarsh, Esq. ). New York, 1846.
Also, with A Legend of the Rhine and Rebecca and Rowena. New
York, 1853. Rptd, as The Diary of C. Jeames de la Pluche, Esq. , in Miscel-
lanies, vol. 11, and with The Memoirs of Mr C. J. Yellowplush, 1856. Three
additional papers from Punch of 1845 and 1846 added in Library edn.
a
## p. 527 (#543) ############################################
IX]
Thackeray
527
The Snobs of England, by one of themselves. Ptd in Punch (53 nos. ),
28 Feb. 1846–27 Feb. 1847. (The Book of Snobs), with seven chapters,
viz. XVII-XXIII, omitted. 1848. New York, 1852. Rptd in Miscellanies,
vol. I, and separately, 1855. The missing chapters were restored in
the Library edn, vol. XXIII.
Notes of a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo. . . by Mr M. A. Titmarsh.
1846. New York, 1846.
Vanity Fair, Pen and Pencil Sketches of English Society. Ptd in 20
serial nos. , Jan. 1847-July 1848. (Vanity Fair, a Novel without a Hero. )
1848. Also 2 pt. New York, 1848. Revised edn. 1853. 2nd revised
edn. 1863 (1864].
Punch's Prize Novelists. Ptd in Punch (20 nos. ), 3 April-9 Oct. 1847.
(Omitting Crinoline and The Stars and Stripes), with The Fat Con-
tributor and Travels in London. New York, 1853. Rptd in Miscellanies,
vol. II, and with Character Sketches, 1856, under the title Novels by
Eminent Hands.
Mrs Perkins's Ball, by Mr M. A. Titmarsh, 1847. Rptd in Christmas Books,
1857.
A Little Dinner at Timmins's. Ptd in Punch (6 nos. ), 27 May-29 July 1848.
Incomplete rpt with A Shabby Genteel Story. New York, 1852. Com-
plete. 1853. Rptd in Miscellanies, vol. III, and with The Bedford Row
Conspiracy, 1856.
The History of Pendennis, his Fortunes and Misfortunes, his Friends and
his greatest Enemy. Ptd in 24 serial nos. Nov. 1848-Dec. 1850. 2 vols. :
vol. , 1849; vol. 11, 1850. Also 2 vols. New York, 1850. Revised edn.
1863 (1864).
Our Street, by Mr M. A. Titmarsh, 1848. Rptd in Christmas Books, 1857.
Dr Birch and his Young Friends, by Mr M. A. Titmarsh. 1849. New York,
1853. Rptd in Christmas Books, 1857.
The Kickleburys on the Rhine, by Mr M. A. Titmarsh. 1850.
Rebecca and Rowena, a Romance upon Romance, by Mr Michael Angelo
Titmarsh (ill. by Doyle, Richard). 1850. Rptd with Jeames's Diary and
A Legend of the Rhine, New York, 1853. Also, in Miscellanies,
vol. 111, and with A Legend of the Rhine (Burlesques), 1856.
The History of Henry Esmond, Esq. 3 vols. 1852. New York, 1852.
Revised edn. 1858.
The Newcomes, Memoirs of a most respectable Family, ed. by Arthur
Pendennis, Esq. (ill. by Doyle, Richard).
1851. Belphegor, the Mountebank; or Pride of Birth. The Acting National
Drama. Vol. xvII. (1853. ]
1851. The Man of Law. The Acting National Drama. Vol. xvii. [1851. ]
Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (1856–1900)
(1904, Paris. ) Salomé. Drame en un Acte. Paris, 1893. With sixteen
Illustrations by Aubrey Beardsley. Paris, 1907.
Salomé. Translated from the French. Pictured by Aubrey Beardsley.
1894. With the two suppressed plates and extra titlepage. Preface
by Ross, Robert. 1907 [1906). 1906 and 1908.
1892. Lady Windermere's Fan. A play about a good woman. 1893.
1893. A Woman of No Importance. [1894. ]
1895. The Importance of being Earnest. A trivial comedy for serious
people. 1899.
1895. An Ideal Husband. 1899. A new acting version. [Ed. Ross, Robert B. ]
[1914. )
Vera; or, The Nihilists. Privately printed. 1902.
The Duchess of Padua. [With a prefatory letter by Ross, Robert. ] 1907.
A dramatised version of The Picture of Dorian Gray was given during
1913.
See, also, post, bibliography to chap. III, vol. xiv.
William Gorman Wills
1872. Charles the First. 1873.
1874. Jane Shore.
? . Marie Stuart.
1878. Olivia. (An adaptation of Goldsmith's The Vicar of Wakefield. )
1883. Claudian. [Dialogue only by Wills; story and construction by
Henry Herman. )
1885. Faust. (1886. ]
Wills, F. W. G. Wills. 1898.
## p. 525 (#541) ############################################
VIII
]
Nineteenth-Century Drama
525
The following adaptations obtained great success and had a considerable
influence on the drama of the period :
1861. A Scrap of Paper. (Adapted from Sardou's Les Pattes de Mouche,
by J, P. Simpson. )
1863. The Duke's Motto. (By John Brougham, founded on Paul Feval's
Le Bossu. )
1867. A Quiet Rubber. (Adapted by C. H. Coghlan from La Partie de
Picquet. )
1878. Diplomacy. (By B. C. Stephenson and Clement Scott; a version of
Sardou's Dora. There have been several notable revivals. )
G. A. B.
CHAPTER IX
THACKERAY
There is a complete bibliography of Thackeray's writings, arranged in
chronological order, in Melville, L. , William Makepeace Thackeray, vol. II,
pp. 145-376, which supersedes previous bibliographies.
A. PRINCIPAL WORKS WITH MISCELLANEOUS FICTION
The Professor. A Tale. Ptd in Bentley's Miscellany, Sept. 1837; rptd in
Comic Tales and Sketches, vol. 11, 1841, as by Goliah Gahagan, and in
A Shabby Genteel Story, etc. , New York, 1852, 1853.
The Yellowplush Correspondence. Ptd in Fraser's Magazine (8 nos. ), Nov.
1837-August 1838, without Mr Yellowplush's Ajew. Philadelphia, 1838.
Rptd in Comic Tales and Sketches, vol. 1, with Fashnable Fax and Polite
Annygoats omitted, and Mr Yellowplush's Ajew (August 1838) and the
epistle to sir Edward Lytton Bulwer, bart. (Epistles to the Literati,
no. XIII, Jan. 1840) added, 1841. Also, in Miscellanies, Prose and Verse,
vol. 11, 1856, under the title Memoirs of Mr C. J, Yellowplush, and in a
separate vol. with The Diary of C. Jeames de la Pluche, Esq. , 1856.
Some Passages in the Life of Major Gahagan. Begun in The New Monthly
Magazine, Feb. 1838; continued as Historical Recollections by Major
Gahagan, March 1838, and as Major Gahagan's Historical Re-
miniscences (3 nos. ), Nov. 1838-Feb. 1839. Reminiscences of Major
Gahagan. 1839. Rptd as Some Passages in the Life of Major Gabagan
in Comic Tales and Sketches, vol. II, 1841, and as The Tremendous
Adventures of Major Gahagan in Miscellanies, vol. 1, 1855.
Catherine, a Story, by Ikey Solomons, Esq. , junior. Ptd in Fraser (7 nos. ),
May 1839-Feb. 1840. Not rptd until 1869 (Library edn, vol. xxII).
Stubbs's Calendar; or, the Fatal Boots. 1839. (Cruikshank's Comic Annual,
ill. by Cruikshank, George. ) Rptd in Comic Tales and Sketches, vol. 11,
1841. New York, 1850. Also, as The Fatal Boots, in Miscellanies, vol. I,
and with Cox's Diary, 1855.
The Bedford Row Conspiracy. Ptd in The New Monthly (3 nos. ), Jan. -April
1840. Rptd with A Shabby Genteel Story, New York, 1852, 1853, in
Comic Tales and Sketches, vol. 1, 1841, in Miscellanies, vol. 111, 1856, and
with A Little Dinner at Timmins's, 1856.
A Shabby Genteel Story. Ptd in Fraser (4 nos. ), June-Oct. 1840. With The
Professor, etc. , New York, 1852, 1853. Rptd in Miscellanies, vol. iv, and
separately, 1857.
## p. 526 (#542) ############################################
526
[CH.
Bibliography
The Paris Sketch Book, by Mr Titmarsh. 2 vols. 1840. The contents
included some miscellaneous sketches, already ptd, with new matter.
An Essay on the Genius of George Cruikshank. 1840. Rptd from The
Westminster Review, June 1840.
Barber Cox and the Cutting of his Comb. 1840. (Cruikshank's Comic
Annual, ill. by Cruikshank, George. ) Rptd as Cox's Diary, in Miscel-
lanies, vol. 1, and with The Fatal Boots, 1855.
The History of Samuel Titmarsh and the Great Hoggarty Diamond. Ptd
in Fraser (4 nos. ), Sept. -Dec. 1841. As The Great Hoggarty Diamond.
New York, 1848. Under original title. 1849. Rptd in Miscellanies.
vol. iv, 1857.
The Second Funeral of Napoleon and The Chronicle of the Drum. 1841.
The Chronicle of the Drum rptd with the Ballads in Miscellanies, vol. 1,
1855.
Sultan Stork; being the One Thousand and Second Night, translated from
the Persian by Major G. OʻG. Gahagan, H. E. I. C. S. Ptd in Ainsworth's
Magazine (2 nos. ), Feb. and May 1842. Rptd in Sultan Stork, and other
Stories and Sketches . . . now first collected [ed. Shepherd, R. H. ], 1887,
and in vol. xx of the American collected edn, Boston, 1889.
The Fitz-Boodle Papers. Ptd in Fraser (5 nos. ), June 1842-Feb. 1843
(viz. Fitz-Boodle's Confession, June 1842; Professions, by George Fitz-
Boodle, July 1842; Fitz-Boodle's Confessions: Miss Löwe, Dorothea,
Ottilia, August 1842, Jan. , Feb. 1843). The Confessions of Fitz-Boodle;
and Some Passages in the Life of Major Gahagan. New York, 1852.
Rptd as The Fitz-Boodle Papers, without Miss Löwe, Dorothea and
Ottilia, in Miscellanies, vol. iv, and with Men's Wives, 1857. Dorothea
and Ottilia were rptd with the rest in the Library edn, 1869, vol. XXII.
Miss Löwe was rptd separately in vol. xxii, 1885, and collected with the
rest in the pocket edn, 1887.
Men's Wives. Ptd in Fraser (8 nos. ), March-Nov. 1843, under the general
title Confessions of George Fitz-Boodle; Men's Wives (viz. I Mr and
Mrs Frank Berry, March; II The Ravenswing, April-June, Aug. , Sept. ;
III Dennis Haggarty's Wife, Oct. ; IV The 's Wife, Nov. ). New
York, 1852. Rptd (without IV) in Miscellanies, vol. iv, and with The
Fitz-Boodle Papers, 1857.
Bluebeard's Ghost, by M. A. Titmarsh. Ptd in Fraser, October 1843. Rptd
in Early and Late Papers, Boston, 1867, and collected in the Library edn,
vol. XXIII, 1885.
The Irish Sketch-Book, by Mr M. A. Titmarsh. 2 vols. 1843.
The Luck of Barry Lyndon, a Romance of the Last Century, by Fitz-Boodle.
Ptd in Fraser (12 nos. ), Jan. -Dec. 1844. 2 vols. New York, 1852. Rptd
as Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq. , in Miscellanies, vol. 11, and as
The Memoirs, etc. , 1856.
The History of the Next French Revolution, from a forthcoming history of
Europe. Ptd in Punch (9 nos. ), 24 Feb. -20 April 1844. See Library edn.
A Legend of the Rhine, by M. A. Titmarsh. Ptd in Cruikshank's Table-
Book (7 nos. ), June-Dec. 1845. With Jeames's Diary and Rebecca and
Rowena. New York, 1853. Rptd in Miscellanies, vol. III, and (in Burles-
ques) with Rebecca and Rowena, 1856.
Jeames's Diary. Ptd in Punch (12 nos. ), 8 Nov. 1845–7 Feb. 1846. (Jeames's
Diary; or Sudden Wealth, by M. A. Titmarsh, Esq. ). New York, 1846.
Also, with A Legend of the Rhine and Rebecca and Rowena. New
York, 1853. Rptd, as The Diary of C. Jeames de la Pluche, Esq. , in Miscel-
lanies, vol. 11, and with The Memoirs of Mr C. J. Yellowplush, 1856. Three
additional papers from Punch of 1845 and 1846 added in Library edn.
a
## p. 527 (#543) ############################################
IX]
Thackeray
527
The Snobs of England, by one of themselves. Ptd in Punch (53 nos. ),
28 Feb. 1846–27 Feb. 1847. (The Book of Snobs), with seven chapters,
viz. XVII-XXIII, omitted. 1848. New York, 1852. Rptd in Miscellanies,
vol. I, and separately, 1855. The missing chapters were restored in
the Library edn, vol. XXIII.
Notes of a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo. . . by Mr M. A. Titmarsh.
1846. New York, 1846.
Vanity Fair, Pen and Pencil Sketches of English Society. Ptd in 20
serial nos. , Jan. 1847-July 1848. (Vanity Fair, a Novel without a Hero. )
1848. Also 2 pt. New York, 1848. Revised edn. 1853. 2nd revised
edn. 1863 (1864].
Punch's Prize Novelists. Ptd in Punch (20 nos. ), 3 April-9 Oct. 1847.
(Omitting Crinoline and The Stars and Stripes), with The Fat Con-
tributor and Travels in London. New York, 1853. Rptd in Miscellanies,
vol. II, and with Character Sketches, 1856, under the title Novels by
Eminent Hands.
Mrs Perkins's Ball, by Mr M. A. Titmarsh, 1847. Rptd in Christmas Books,
1857.
A Little Dinner at Timmins's. Ptd in Punch (6 nos. ), 27 May-29 July 1848.
Incomplete rpt with A Shabby Genteel Story. New York, 1852. Com-
plete. 1853. Rptd in Miscellanies, vol. III, and with The Bedford Row
Conspiracy, 1856.
The History of Pendennis, his Fortunes and Misfortunes, his Friends and
his greatest Enemy. Ptd in 24 serial nos. Nov. 1848-Dec. 1850. 2 vols. :
vol. , 1849; vol. 11, 1850. Also 2 vols. New York, 1850. Revised edn.
1863 (1864).
Our Street, by Mr M. A. Titmarsh, 1848. Rptd in Christmas Books, 1857.
Dr Birch and his Young Friends, by Mr M. A. Titmarsh. 1849. New York,
1853. Rptd in Christmas Books, 1857.
The Kickleburys on the Rhine, by Mr M. A. Titmarsh. 1850.
Rebecca and Rowena, a Romance upon Romance, by Mr Michael Angelo
Titmarsh (ill. by Doyle, Richard). 1850. Rptd with Jeames's Diary and
A Legend of the Rhine, New York, 1853. Also, in Miscellanies,
vol. 111, and with A Legend of the Rhine (Burlesques), 1856.
The History of Henry Esmond, Esq. 3 vols. 1852. New York, 1852.
Revised edn. 1858.
The Newcomes, Memoirs of a most respectable Family, ed. by Arthur
Pendennis, Esq. (ill. by Doyle, Richard).
