“With the two exceptions of most of Charles Dickens’s letters and most of his introductions to his books, this volume of the AMS Press Dickens annotated bibliography series focuses on what could be described as ‘all the rest’ of Dickens’s writings.” What Hanna modestly terms “all the rest,” in this comment from his introduction, barely suggests the extraordinary labor he has undertaken in this bibliography. Often gathering together information on little-known works rarely subjected to sustained scholarship, Hanna has generated more than 2,000 annotated entries identifying nonfictional, theatrical, and poetical works by way of extant commentary—from an eight-year-old Dickens’s first play to literary criticism as recent as the year 2000. Even the most devoted Dickensians will be dazzled by all that Hanna’s spadework has brought to light.

Hanna’s earlier published work includes articles, primarily in The Dickensian, two of which deal with Dickens and plagiarism—a charge he refutes. He is also the author of The Dickens Family Gospel (Legacy, 1998) and The Dickens Christian Reader (AMS, 2000).