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Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens (1812-1870) was an English writer and social critic. Regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era, Dickens had a prolific collection of works including fifteen novels, five novellas, and hundreds of short stories and articles. The term “cliffhanger endings” was created because of his practice of ending his serial short stories with drama and suspense. Dickens’ political and social beliefs heavily shaped his literary work. He argued against capitalist beliefs, and advocated for children’s rights, education, and other social reforms. Dickens advocacy for such causes is apparent in his empathetic portrayal of lower classes in his famous works, such as The Christmas Carol and Hard Times.
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The VIllage Coquettes by Charles Dickens (Illustrated) - Charles Dickens
The Complete Works of
CHARLES DICKENS
VOLUME 33 OF 64
The VIllage Coquettes
Parts Edition
By Delphi Classics, 2015
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‘The VIllage Coquettes’
Charles Dickens: Parts Edition (in 64 parts)
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CHARLES DICKENS
IN 64 VOLUMES
Parts Edition Contents
1, A Dinner at Poplar Walk
The Novels
2, The Pickwick Papers
3, Oliver Twist
4, Nicholas Nickleby
5, The Old Curiosity Shop
6, Barnaby Rudge
7, Martin Chuzzlewit
8, Dombey and Son
9, David Copperfield
10, Bleak House
11, Hard Times
12, Little Dorrit
13, A Tale of Two Cities
14, Great Expectations
15, Our Mutual Friend
16, The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Droodiana
17, The Cloven Foot by Robert Henry Newell
18, John Jasper’s Secret by Henry Morford
19, Part Second of the Mystery of Edwin Drood by Thomas James
20, A Great Mystery Solved by Gillan Vase
The Christmas Novellas
21, A Christmas Carol
22, The Chimes
23, The Cricket on the Hearth
24, The Battle of Life
25, The Haunted Man and the Ghost’s Bargain
The Short Story Collections
26, Sketches by Boz
27, Master Humphrey’s Clock
28, Christmas Numbers of ‘Household Words’
29, Christmas Numbers of ‘All the Year Round’
30, Miscellaneous Short Stories
31, Reprinted Pieces
The Plays
32, The Strange Gentleman
33, The VIllage Coquettes
34, Is She His Wife?
35, The Lamplighter
36, Mr. Nightingale’s Diary
37, The Frozen Deep
38, No Thoroughfare
The Poetry
39, The Collected Poetry of Charles Dickens
The Non-Fiction
40, Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi by Thomas Egerton Wilks
41, American Notes
42, Pictures from Italy
43, The Life of Our Lord
44, A Child’s History of England
45, The Uncommercial Traveller
46, The Speeches
47, The Letters
48, Miscellaneous Papers
The Adaptations
49, Tales from Dickens by Hallie Erminie Rives
50, Dickens’ Children by Jessie Willcox Smith
51, Dickens’ Stories About Children Every Child Can Read by Jesse Lyman Hurlbut
52, Sam Weller by W. T. Moncrieff
53, Oliver Twist by Charles Zachary Barnett
54, Nicholas Nickleby by Edward Stirling
55, The Old Curiosity Shop by Edward Stirling
The Criticism
56, The Criticism
The Biographies
57, The Life of Charles Dickens by John Forster
58, Forster’s Life of Dickens by George Gissing
59, Dickens by Sir Adolphus William Ward
60, Life of Charles Dickens by Sir Frank T. Marzials
61, Victorian Worthies: Charles Dickens by G. H. Blore
62, Dickens’ London by M. F. Mansfield
63, My Father as I Recall Him by Mamie Dickens
64, Brief Biography by Leslie Stephen
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The VIllage Coquettes
A COMIC OPERA IN TWO ACTS
CONTENTS
PREFACE
DRAMATIS PERSONÆ
ACT I
ACT II.
DEDICATION
To J. P. HARLEY, ESQ.
MY DEAR SIR,
My dramatic bantlings are no sooner born, than you father them. You have made my ‘Strange Gentleman’ exclusively your own; you have adopted Martin Stokes with equal readiness; and you still profess your willingness to do the same kind office for all future scions of the same stock.
I dedicate to you the first play I ever published; and you made for the me the first play I ever produced: — the balance is in your favour, and I am afraid it will remain so.
That you may long contribute to the amusement of the public, and long be spared to shed a lustre, by the honour and integrity of your public life, on the profession which for many years you have done so much to uphold, is the sincere and earnest wish of, my dear Sir,
Yours most faithfully,
CHARLES DICKENS.
December 15th, 1836.
PREFACE
‘EITHER the Honourable Gentleman