With the phenomenally popular weekly magazines Household Words and All the Year Round, Charles Dickens effectively re-invented periodical literature in the nineteenth century. Already enjoying huge stature as a world-famous author, Dickens was often the principal contributor of the journals that carried the novels serialized within them. As, by his own term, the conductor of the weekly magazines, he was able to direct the gaze of his readership, easily eliding fiction and non-fiction, to those things that most concerned him poverty, crime, education, public health, women, and social welfare and reform. This collection of new essays from a rich variety of contributors, explores the journalism and fiction in Household Words and All Year Round and their relationship to the wider publishing world. The essays were presented at the Dickens Journals Online Conference launched in March 2012.REVIEWS ""Charles Dickens and the Mid-Victorian Press 1850-1870" is a series of essays and articles by various writers who studied Dickens. The book, edited by Hazel Mackenzie and Ben Winyard is a deep study of Charles Dickens as a journalist during the period in which he was a very successful magazine editor of Household Words and then All the Year Round. The essays in this book were presented online at ...] and this book was compiled especially for students and post graduates who wish to study Dickens in depth."Bonnie Neely, Amazon Top Reviewer, 2014/04/20"