Thanks		1
Acknowledgements		1
Foreword		3

Abbreviations, references and cross-references		7
	General abbreviations used throughout	7
	References	7
	Cross-references	8

Section 1. Introduction to the working notes		9
	Dickens’s “green cover” novels	9
	History of the working notes	10
	Materials of the working notes	12

Section 2. Transcribing the worksheets		15
	Basic issues	15
	Special issues	18
	Comparison with other transcriptions	23

Section 3. Procedures in the worksheets		27
	Formatting the worksheet	27
	Entries on the left-hand half	28
	Entries on the right-hand half	30
	Entries in the double number	31

Section 4. Introduction to the worksheets		33
	Introduction to the facsimiles	33
	Numbering the entries in the transcriptions	34
	Deletion in transcription	35
	Dickens’s order of work as shown in the commentaries	35
	Abbreviations and other conventions in the commentaries	36

Section 5. The worksheets		37
	Worksheet for No.1 (verso)	37
	Worksheet for No.1 (recto)	38
	Worksheet for No.2	42
	Worksheet for No.3	46
	Worksheet for No.4	50
	Worksheet for No.5	56
	Worksheet for No.6	62
	Worksheet for No.7	70
	Worksheet for No.8	74
	Worksheet for No.9	78
	Worksheet for No.10	82
	Worksheet for No.11	86
	Worksheet for No.12	90
	Worksheet for No.13	94
	Worksheet for No.14	98
	Worksheet for No.15	102
	Worksheet for No.16	106
	Worksheet for No.17	110
	Worksheet for No.18	114
	Worksheet for Nos.19 & 20	118

Section 6. Overview		127
	Preliminary entries and the number of chapters	127
	Chapter titles: When and where they are entered and revised	132
	Memory, speech-making and planning	134
	Chapter descriptions as plans	137
	Chapter descriptions as summaries	143
	Development of number and chapter planning in each quarter	146

Afterword		159

Appendices		165
	A. Chapter number, title and length by part issue and date	165
	B. Chapter title history with purpose and features of chapter description	168
	C. Transcription of the List of Chapter Headings	173
	D. Revisions to chapter titles in manuscript, worksheet and List	181
	E. False starts in the manuscript at chapter openings	189
	F. Use of blue inks in worksheet, manuscript, List and proofs	192

Bibliography		195
Endnotes		197

Cover design of the green wrapper for the monthly instalments of Dombey and Son. Reproduced by courtesy of Charles Dickens Museum, London.

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