The Works of Douglas William Jerrold (1803-1857): Journalist and Dramatist

Philip V. Allingham, Contributing Editor, Victorian Web; Professor Emeritus, Lakehead University

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Plays

For background information on the various theatres for which Jerrold wrote, see Theatres in Victorian London.

• More Frightened than Hurt (1821) Sadler's Wells Theatre
• The Gipsey of Derncleugh (1821)
• The Smoked Miser; or, The Benefit of Hanging, a farce, in one act (1823) first performed at Sadler's Wells
• Paul Pry, a three-act farce at The Royal Coburg Theatre (1826)
• Ambrose Gwinett, or, A Sea-side Story (1828)
• Nell Gwynne; Or, The Prologue (1828), Covent Garden Theatre
• Devil's Ducat; or, the Gift of Mammon (1828)
• Thomas á Becket (1828), an historical drama in five acts
• Bampfylde Moore Carew; or, The Gypsey of the Glen, a romantic melodrama in three acts (1829)
• Law and Lions, a two-act farce at The Surrey, (1829)
• Black-Eyed Susan; or, All in the Downs (1829) nautical melodrama, Surrey Theatre
• Vidocq, the French police spy (1829) a melodrama in two acts
• John Overy, the Miser of Southwark Ferry, a drama in three acts, first performed at the Royal Surrey Theatre (April 1829)
• The Mutiny at the Nore, a nautical drama in three acts, first performed at the Royal Coburg Theatre (23 August 23 1830)
• The Statue Lover, or, Music in Marble (1830), a vaudeville in one act
• The Housekeeper, or, The White Rose (1830), a comedy in two acts
• Descart, the French Buccaneer (1830), a melodrama in two acts
• Two Eyes between Two (1830), a broad extravaganza in one act
• Wives by Advertisement, or, Courting in the newspapers (1830)
• The Drunkard's Fate, or, Fifteen Years of a Drunkard's Life, a melodrama in three acts (1830)
• Martha Willis, The Servant Maid (1831), "an original domestic drama in two acts"
• The Rent Day (1832) melodrama, Theatre Royal Drury Lane
• The Golden Calf, a comedy in three acts (30 June 1832), Strand Theatre
• The Bride of Ludgate (8 December 1832) was the first of a number of his plays produced at Drury Lane.
• The Wedding Gown (1834) Drury Lane Theatre
• The Hazard of the Die (1835)
• Beau Nash, the King of Bath, a comedy in three acts (1835)
• The Schoolfellows, a comedy in two acts (1835)
• Doves in a Cage, a comedy in two acts (1835)
• The Perils of Pippins, or, The Man Who Couldn't Help It (1836), a travestie drama, in four acts
• The Painter of Ghent (1836), his only tragedy,​The Strand
• Sally in Our Alley (1840)
• The White Milliner a comedy in two acts (1841)
• The Prisoner of War (1842)
• Gertrude's Cherries, or, Waterloo in 1835 (1842)
• Bubbles of the Day (1842)
• Time Works Wonders (26 April 1845) Theatre Royal Haymarket
• The Dreamer and the Worker (1847)
• The Catspaw (1850)
• The Printer's Devil (1850)
• Retired from Business (1851)
• St. Cupid, or, Dorothy's Fortune (1852)
• The Heart of Gold (1854)
• The Tower of Lochlain; or, The Idiot Son (posthumously, 1870), a melodrama in three acts.
• The Devil's Ducat, or, The Gift of Mammon (posthumously, 1876)

Periodicals that Jerrold edited

• Douglas Jerrold's Weekly Newspaper, 1846-1848.
• The Illuminated Magazine
• Jerrold's Shilling Magazine (1846)
• Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper (1852-57)
• The Daily News, as sub-editor and leader writer, with Dickens as editor (1846)
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Fiction

Jerrold’s best known non-dramatic works include various series of papers reprinted from Punch's Letters to his Son (beginning in 1843), Punch's Complete Letter-writer (1845), and the famous Mrs. Caudle's Curtain Lectures (1846).

• Whimsical Tales (1834) short stories
• Men of Character (1838) including "Job Pippin: The man who couldn't help it," and other sketches (3 vols.)
• Cakes and Ale (2 vols., 1842) short stories
• The Story of a Feather (1844) novel
• The Chronicles of Clovernook (1846) novel
• "The Gibbet and the Death-bed." Punch 22 Nov. 1849
• A Man Made of Money (1849) novel
• St. Giles and St. James (1851) novel
• The Brownrigg Papers (1860)
• Fireside Saints: Mr. Caudle's breakfast talk, and other papers (posthumously, 1873)
• The Barber's Chair and The Hedgehog Letters (posthumously, 1890)
• The Handbook of Swindling, and other papers (posthumously, 1891)

Periodicals

Jerrold contributed to numerous periodicals, including the following. For further information on the various periodicals in which Jerrold published, see Victorian Periodicals.

• The Monthly Magazine
• Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine
• The New Monthly Magazine
• The Athenaeum
• Punch (from the second number, 1841)

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Last modified 29 July 2017