Contributors
A number of prominent authors and novels were serialized in All the Year Round, including:
- Charles Dickens
- A Tale of Two Cities (June 1859 to December 1859)
- Great Expectations (1 December 1860 to August 1861)
- The Uncommercial Traveller (28 January 1860 to 13 October 1860, plus 1863-65 and 1868–69)
- Wilkie Collins
- The Woman in White (29 November 1859 to 1860)
- No Name (15 March 1862 to 17 January 1863)
- The Moonstone (1868)
- Anthony Trollope
- The Duke's Children (1879 to ????)
- Edward Bulwer-Lytton
- A Strange Story (10 August 1861 to 8 March 1862) then anonymous
- Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
- Charles Lever
- Charles Reade
- Frances Trollope
Other contributors included:
- Sheridan Le Fanu - 6 short stories in 1870 (later collected in Madam Crowl's Ghost)
- Adelaide Anne Procter - poems (later collected in Legends and Lyrics)
- Hesba Stretton - children's literature
- Walter Goodman - humorous sketches
- George Augustus Sala - travel sketches from Constantinople, Rome and St Petersburg
- E A Worthington - humorous illustrated sketches
- Sarah Doudney - poetry and fiction
Staff writers included:
- Henry Morley - informative though rather congested articles on historical, political, economic and literary topics, including the background to the American Civil War
- Charles Allston Collins (younger brother of Wilkie Collins and son-in-law to Dickens) - reportage and articles on art and architecture, marked by a distinctive vein of melancholy humour. He wrote as 'David Fudge' and 'Our Eye-Witness'
- Eliza Lynn Linton
Almost all articles were printed without naming their author; only the editor, "Conducted by Charles Dickens", was mentioned on the first page and the head of every other page. While a complete key to who wrote what and for how much in Household Words was compiled in 1973 by Anne Lohrli (using an analysis of the office account book maintained by Dickens's subeditor, W. H. Wills), unfortunately the account book for All the Year Round has not survived. However, Ella Ann Oppenlander has attempted to provide something comparable in a 1984 book not easily procured, Dickens' All the Year Round: Descriptive Index and Contributor List.
Noted anonymous articles include:
- 1861 - "The Morrill Tariff", 28 December 1861 (cited in the Morrill Tariff article)
- 1871 - "Vampyres and Ghouls" (aka "Vampires and Ghouls"), 20 May 1871, pp. 597–600 (later collected in: Gilbert, William (2005). The Last Lords of Gardonal. Dead Letter Press)
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