Publishes final Christmas book, The Haunted Man, in December. David Copperfield begins running. David Copperfield finishes in November. Founds and edits the weekly Household Words . 1851 Begins work on Bleak House.
Hous e begins to appear monthly.
Bleak Hous e ends in September. Tours Italy with Augustus Egg and Wilkie Collins. Returns to England. Gives the first of many public readings from his own works. Summers in Boulogne.