As you'll see from the course booklet, next monday's session is on Household Words. What I'd like you to do is start with the very first issue of Dickens's magazine, available in its entirety on Google Books, here. (Indeed, Google Books have the entire run of HW; so if you start and want to carry on ... for instance, if you want to discover what happens in Lizzie Leigh, the serialised story with which Dickens kicked off, you can just carry on reading).
So, to reiterate: please read the first issue of Household Words in its entirety by next week's class.
Dickens's personal contributions to Household Words have been collected and annotated by Michael Slater ("Gone Astray" and Other Papers from "Household Words," 1851-59; reviewed here by Lillian Naylor. And, here's Shu-Fang Lai’s 'Fact or Fancy: What Can We Learn about Dickens from His Periodicals "Household Words" and "All the Year Round"?'
Here's a review article by K. J. Fielding on a reprint of the complete run of Household Words' (1850-1859), that says a couple of interesting things.
There are some book-length studes, too. Sabine Clemm's Dickens, Journalism, and Nationhood: Mapping the World in Household Words (Taylor & Francis, 2008) is partly available through Google Books; as is John Drew's Dickens the Journalist (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003).
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