The Victorian City

by Judith Flanders

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  ENDNOTES

  1. The first citation given in the Oxford English Dictionary is from 1881, eleven years after Dickens’ death. But newspapers were using the term ‘Dickensian’ in 1842, when the author was just thirty years old and had yet to publish his greatest works.