Household Words - Collaborative Works

Collaborative Works

Dickens would also collaborate with other staff writers on a number of Christmas stories and plays for seasonal issues of the magazine. These included:

• The Seven Poor Travellers in the Extra Christmas Number (14 December, 1854) with Wilkie Collins, Eliza Lynn Linton, Adelaide Anne Procter (under the name "Mary Berwick"), and George Augustus Henry Sala.
• The Holly Tree Inn in the Extra Christmas Number (15 December, 1855) with Wilkie Collins, William Howitt, Harriet Parr, and Adelaide Anne Procter.
• The Wreck of the Golden Mary in the Extra Christmas Number (6 December, 1856) with Wilkie Collins, Percy Hetherington Fitzgerald, Adelaide Anne Procter, Harriet Parr, and Rev. James White.
• The Frozen Deep A play written with Wilkie Collins and initially performed in the converted schoolroom of Dickens's London residence, Tavistock House (6 January, 1857)
• The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices an non-seasonal collaboration (3-31 October, 1857) with Wilkie Collins
• The Perils of Certain English Prisoners in the Extra Christmas Number (7 December, 1857) with Wilkie Collins
• A House to Let in the Extra Christmas Number (7 December, 1858) with Elizabeth Gaskell and Adelaide Anne Procter.

Other contributors to Household Words included author James Payn.

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' subeditor, W. H. Wills.