Background Information
- Charles Lever's Charles O'Malley, The Irish Dragoon (1840-41)
- Hablot Knight Browne, 1815-1882; A Brief Biography
- Cattermole and Phiz: The First illustrators of Barnaby Rudge: A Team Effort by "The Clock Works" (1841)
- Phiz: 'A Good Hand at a Horse'" — A Gallery and Brief Overview of Phiz's Illustrations of Horses for Defoe, Dickens, Lever, and Ainsworth (1836-64)
Geographical and Socio-political Associations: Victorian Ireland
- The Landscape of Ireland
- The Geography of Ireland
- Ireland in The Illustrated London News
- Victorian Ireland
- The Land War in Ireland
- The Irish Famine: 1845-49
Illustrations for Charles O'Malley, The Irish Dragoon (1840, rpt. 1873)
- 1. Frontispiece: Mr. Free making free (facing engraved title)
- 2. Vignette for title-page: Charley's Meeting with Sir Arthur
- 3. The Sunk Fence (facing p. 21)
- 4. Mr. Blake's Dressing-Room: "Come in — it's only Charley, my darling" (facing p. 25)
- 5. The Election (facing p. 48)
- 6. The Rescue (facing p. 56)
- 7. Mr. Crow well Plucked (facing p. 71)
- 8. Frank Webber at his Studies (facing p. 75)
- 9. Miss Judy Macan (facing p. 104)
- 10. The last Night in Trinity (facing p. 117)
- 11. Charles "pops the Question," and is popped at (facing p. 149)
- 12. The Adjutant's after-dinner Ride (facing p. 160)
- 13. The Rival Flunkies (facing p. 167)
- 14. The Pic-Nic (facing p. 177)
- 15. Major Monsoon and Donna Maria (facing p. 206)
- 16. Charles O'Malley topping a Mule Cart (facing p. 210)
- 17. The Salutation (facing p. 240)
- 18. The Skirmish (facing p. 248)
- 19. A Touch at Leap Frog with Napoleon (facing p. 271)
- 20. Major Monsoon trying to Charge (facing p. 276)
- 21. Mr. Free's Song (facing p. 294)
- 22. The Coat of Mail (facing p. 311)
Volume One (1840) ends with the conclusion of Chapter Sixty-Seven, at approximately the mid-point of the 1873 single-volume edition.
- 23. O'Malley in the Presence of Napoleon (Vignette title, Vol. 2; anticipating p. 632)
- 24. Mickey's Joy upon finding his Master (facing p. 335)
- 25. Exorcising a Spirit (facing p. 342)
- 26. A Flying Shot (facing p. 354)
- 27. A Spirited Contest with a Ghost (facing p. 376)
- 28. O'Malley following the custom of his Country (facing p. 387)
- 29. Mr. Free turned Spaniard (facing p. 400)
- 30. Charley trying a charger (facing p. 415)
- 31. Going out to dinner (facing p. 438)
- 32. Disadvantages of Breakfasting over a Duelling Party (facing p. 442)
- 33. The Tables Turned (facing p. 479)
- 34. Mr. Free Pipes whilst his Friends Pipe-clay (facing p. 485)
- 35. A Hunting turn-out in the Peninsula (facing p. 500)
- 36. Mike capturing the Trumpeter (facing p. 506)
- 37. O'Malley's Triumphal Progress (facing p. 548)
- 38. Captn. Mickey Free relating his Heroic Deeds (facing p. 560)
- 39. "Baby Blake" (facing p. 580)
- 40. The Two Chesnuts (facing p. 586)
- 41. Mickey astonishes the "Natives" (facing p. 613)
- 42. The Gentlemen "who never sleep" (facing p. 615)
- 43. Death of Hammersley (facing p. 656)
- 44. The Welcome Home (facing p. 659).
- Horses by "Phiz" for Charles Lever's Charles O'Malley, The Irish Dragoon (Nov.-Dec. 1841, rpt., 1873)
Curry's serialisation of individual monthly parts combined instalments 21 and 22 in order to wind up the novel prior to December 1841. This "double number" thus contained the final four illustrations plus the frontispiece and the vignette on the title-page. Later, single-volume editions dropped the frontispiece vignette of O'Malley and Napoleon.
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Bibliography
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Lever, Charles. Charles O'Malley, The Irish Dragoon. Illustrated by Phiz [Hablot Knight Browne]. Published serially in The Dublin University Magazine from Vol. XV (March 1840) through XVIII (December 1841). Dublin: William Curry, March 1840 through December 1841, 2 vols. London: Samuel Holdsworth, 1842; rpt., Chapman and Hall, 1873.
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