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Contents

Thanks

1

Acknowledgements

1

Foreword

3

Abbreviations, references and cross-references

7

General abbreviations used throughout

7

References

7

Cross-references

8

Section 1. Introduction to the working notes

9

Dickens’s “green cover” novels

9

History of the working notes

10

Materials of the working notes

12

Section 2. Transcribing the worksheets

15

Basic issues

15

Special issues

18

Comparison with other transcriptions

23

Section 3. Procedures in the worksheets

27

Formatting the worksheet

27

Entries on the left-hand half

28

Entries on the right-hand half

30

Entries in the double number

31

Section 4. Introduction to the worksheets

33

Introduction to the facsimiles

33

Numbering the entries in the transcriptions

34

Deletion in transcription

35

Dickens’s order of work as shown in the commentaries

35

Abbreviations and other conventions in the commentaries

36

Section 5. The worksheets

37

Worksheet for No.1 (verso)

37

Worksheet for No.1 (recto)

38

Worksheet for No.2

42

Worksheet for No.3

46

Worksheet for No.4

50

Worksheet for No.5

56

Worksheet for No.6

62

Worksheet for No.7

70

Worksheet for No.8

74

Worksheet for No.9

78

Worksheet for No.10

82

Worksheet for No.11

86

Worksheet for No.12

90

Worksheet for No.13

94

Worksheet for No.14

98

Worksheet for No.15

102

Worksheet for No.16

106

Worksheet for No.17

110

Worksheet for No.18

114

Worksheet for Nos.19 & 20

118

Section 6. Overview

127

Preliminary entries and the number of chapters

127

Chapter titles: When and where they are entered and revised

132

Memory, speech-making and planning

134

Chapter descriptions as plans

137

Chapter descriptions as summaries

143

Development of number and chapter planning in each quarter

146

Afterword

159

Appendices

165

A. Chapter number, title and length by part issue and date

165

B. Chapter title history with purpose and features of chapter description

168

C. Transcription of the List of Chapter Headings

173

D. Revisions to chapter titles in manuscript, worksheet and List

181

E. False starts in the manuscript at chapter openings

189

F. Use of blue inks in worksheet, manuscript, List and proofs

192

Bibliography

195

Endnotes

197

Cover design of the green wrapper for the monthly instalments of Dombey and Son. Reproduced by courtesy of Charles Dickens Museum, London.