Dickens and Massachusetts: the lasting legacy of the Commonwealth visits

Introduction: Dickens and Massachusetts, the republic of his imagination / Diana C. Archibald

Part I: Exhibition. Dickens and Massachusetts : a tale of power and transformation exhibition narrative with illustrations / Diana C. Archibald with Joel J. Brattin

Part II: Essays. Dickens, the Lowell Mill girls, and the making of a Christmas carol / Natalie McKnight and Chelsea Bray ; Visions of Lowell, light and dark, in our mutual friend / André DeCuir ; Dickens's visit to the Perkins School and "Doctor Marigold" / Diana C. Archibald ; Dickens, Longfellow, and the village blacksmith / Lillian Nayder ; Slavery in Dickens's manuscript of American notes for general circulation / Joel J. Brattin ; Dickens's visits to Springfield, Massachusetts, in 1842 and 1868 / Kit Polga ; Dickens, Martineau, and Massachusetts : the republic they came to see / Iain Crawford

Appendix: Selected works by Charles Dickens.