The Mudfog Papers was written by Victorian era novelist Charles Dickens and published from 1837–38 in the monthly literary serial Bentley's Miscellany, which he then edited. Because of his success with of Sketches by Boz published in 1836 Dickens was asked by the publisher Chapman & Hall to supply descriptions to explain a series of comic "cockney sporting plates" by illustrator Robert Seymour, and to connect them into a novel. In this contribution to our series on The Best Book You’ve Never Read, Elizabeth Drialo introduces Charles Dickens’s little-known Mudfog Papers, which she claims as a fascinating example of Victorian steampunk.
Skip to main content.co.uk Try Prime Hello, Sign in Account & Lists Sign in Account & Lists Returns & Orders Try … p. 495 PUBLIC LIFE OF MR. TULRUMBLE ONCE MAYOR OF MUDFOG. “Automaton Police Court and Real Offenders,” etched illustration by George Cruikshank for The Mudfog Papers by Charles Dickens. The Mudfog Papers was written by Charles Dickens and published from 1837 to 1838 in the monthly literary journal Bentley's Miscellany, which he was then editing. Mudfog is a pleasant town—a remarkably pleasant town—situated in a charming hollow by the side of a river, from which river, Mudfog derives an agreeable scent of pitch, tar, coals, and rope-yarn, a roving population in oilskin hats, a pretty steady influx of drunken bargemen, and a great many other maritime advantages. The Mudfog Papers: Amazon.co.uk: Charles Dickens: Books. The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club (also known as The Pickwick Papers) was Charles Dickens's first novel.