Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
George and Weedon Grossmith: A Brief Chronology
A Note on the Text
The Diary of a Nobody
Appendix A: Contemporary Reviews
- From Baron de B.W. & Co., “Our Booking Office,” Punch, 103 (23 June 1892)
- From The Saturday Review, 74 (23 June 1892)
- From The Athenaeum (13 August 1892)
- From The Literary World, 46 (29 July 1892)
- From The Speaker, 6 (6 August 1892)
- From The New York Times (19 December 1892)
- Publisher’s Note to the “new edition” of 1910 (10 October 1910)
- From The Bookman [London], 39 (December 1910)
- From The Bookman [London], 57 (December 1919)
- From Xanthias, Queen’s Quarterly, 27 (1920)
Appendix B: The Clerk’s Lot in Life
- From Charles Edward Parsons, Clerks; Their Position and Advancement (1876)
- From The Clerk:A Sketch in Outline of His Duties and Discipline (1878)
- From Francis Davenant, Starting in Life: Hints for Parents on the Choice of a Profession or Trade for Their Sons (1881)
- From The Story of a London Clerk: A Faithful Narrative Faithfully Told (1896)
- From Charles Booth, ed., Life and Labour of the People in London (1896)
- From Robert White, “Wanted:A Rowton House for Clerks,” Nineteenth Century, 42 (October 1897)
- From Shan Bullock, Robert Thorne: The Story of a London Clerk (1907)
Appendix C: Domestic Economy at The Laurels
- From G.S. Layard, “A Lower Middle-Class Budget,” Cornhill Magazine, 10 (Jan–June 1901)
Appendix D: Suburban Fictions in the Wake of the Diary
- From R. Andom, Martha and I: Being Scenes from Our Suburban Life (1898)
- From W. Pett Ridge, Outside the Radius: Stories of a London Suburb (1899)
- From Barry Pain, Eliza (1900)
- From Keble Howard, The Smiths of Surbiton: A Comedy without a Plot (1906)
Appendix E: Séances in the Suburbs
- From Morell Theobald, Spirit Workers in the Home Circle (1887)
- From Florence Marryat, There Is No Death (1891)
- From Barry Pain, Eliza Getting On (1911)
Appendix F: Suburban Life and its Critics
- From Geoffrey Mortimer, The Blight of Respectability (1897)
- From H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds (1898)
- From T.W.H. Crosland, The Suburbans (1905)
- From C.F.G. Masterman, In Peril of Change: Essays Written in Time of Tranquillity (1905)
- From C.F.G. Masterman, The Condition of England (1909)
Works Cited and Recommended Reading
