All the Year Round

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All the Year Round (whose full title was All the Year Round. A Weekly Journal. Conducted by Charles Dickens. With Which is Incorporated Household Words) was a weekly magazine edited by Charles Dickens which was published between 1859 and 1893. It was the successor to Household Words, Dickens' previous journal. Following Charles Dickens' death in 1870 it was edited by his son Charles Culliford Boz Dickens.

The journal contained the same mixture of fiction and non-fiction as Household Words but with a greater emphasis on literary matters and less on journalism. Nearly 11 per cent of the non-fiction articles in All the Year Round dealt with some aspect of international affairs or cultures, discounting the American Civil War, which Dickens instructed his staff to avoid unless they had specifically cleared a topic with him first.

Although Dickens continued to micromanage the editorial department, scrupulously revising copy, his own contributions fell off considerably after 1863, largely because he spent more and more time on the road with his public readings.

While a complete key to who wrote what and for how much in Household Words was compiled in 1973 by Anne Lohrli, using an analysis of the office account book maintained by Dickens' subeditor, W. H. Wills, unfortunately the account book for All the Year Round has not survived. However, Ella Ann Oppenlander, in a work not easily procured, Dickens's All the Year Round: Descriptive Index and Contributor List (1984), has attempted to provide something comparable to Lohrli's work on Household Words.

A number of prominent novels were serialized in Household Words including,