- Brief description
- Dickensana scrapbook I compiled by Frederic G. Kitton
- Label
- This scrapbook titled 'Dickensana I’ was compiled by Frederic G. Kitton with content ranging from 1867-1904. This large volume is the first of four and part of the Frederic G. Kitton collection. Frederic George Kitton (1856-1904) was a noted Charles Dickens scholar, artist, and founding member of the Dickens Fellowship. He is best known for his illustrations of landscapes, scenes and sites associated with Charles Dickens, his illustrations for W. R. Hughes’s 'A Weeks Tramp in Dicken’s-land' (1891), and his numerous publications including 'Dickensiana: A bibliography of the literature relating to Charles Dickens and His Writings' (1886), 'Charles Dickens by Pen and Pencil' (1890), 'The Novels of Charles Dickens: A Bibliography and Sketch' (1897), 'Dickens and His Illustrators' (1899), and the posthumously published 'The Dickens Country' (1905). His death at age 48 was a great blow to the Dickens community and was lamented at length in the first edition of the Dickens Fellowship publication, The Dickensian.
- Collection
- Archives & Manuscripts
- Object number
- [lib]6844
- Object type
- scrapbook
- Title
- Dickensana, I, Collected by F.G. Kitton
Dickensana, I, Collected by F.G. Kitton - Production person
- Kitton, Frederic G
- Production date
- 1867-1904
- Arrangement
- This scrapbook is part of the Frederic G Kitton collection. The Museum holds a range of archive & manuscript material connected to Kitton, from letters, to scrapbooks. Historically, these were accessioned and numbered as individual items rather than arranged within the traditional hierarchy of an archive collection.
- Extent
- Bound Scrapbook
(From the Content section)
The contents of this scrapbook are a remarkable collection of newspaper clippings, ephemera, original drawings, and manuscript material.
The contents include: cartoons, reproductions of images/artworks of Dickens, carte de visites, newspaper clippings, magazine articles, poetry, letters, programs, original sketches, artwork proofs, a copy of the Dickens’s Marriage certificate, manuscript facsimiles, magazine sketches, copies of unpublished sketches, originals of Dickens’s bookplate, seal and signature, original letters and cheques, photographs, Kitton’s Dickens Fellowship membership card, different versions of Dickens artworks, greeting cards, calendars and advertisements.
The topics covered in the newspaper clippings and magazine articles are equally as various, and include: Dickens locations in London, Dickens family members, Dickens’s childhood, Dickens as a reporter, disappearing London, London door knockers, Dickens’s ongoing popularity, new books about Dickens, Dickens topography, Dickens and religion, festivals, Dickens and Wilkie Collins, Dickens letters, the sale of rare Dickens books, Dickens and the Queen, people Dickens characters were based on, Herbert Becroft’s sketching entertainment, Dickens and other authors, Dickens bazaars, Dickens competitions, Grip the raven, Dickens and cycling, flowers, ships and restaurants named after Dickens, commemorative spoons, Dickens relics, Dickens as a person and even Dickens’s hat.
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