Dickens the journalist
I've said it here and elsewhere many times (here's one example): I've never finished a Dickens novel. I've read a few pages of one or two, at best, so don't assume from what follows that I'm actually interested. But I was reading a review of Dickens the Journalist by John Drew, and was taken by the number and names of the journals he was involved with: Bentley's Miscellany, Master Humphrey's Clock, Household Words, All the Year Round, as well as those he proposed: The Forge, The Shadow, The Anvil of Time. The proliferation of outlets for writing, and their silly names, reminds me of something ...
