What is the name of this ninth novel by an English author, first published as a serial between March 1852 and September 1853, which contained a famous photograph posed by Oscar Rejlander in an episode that inspired the name of the film The Death of Poor Joe?
The Death of Poor Joe The Death of Poor Joe is a 1901 British short silent drama film, directed by George Albert Smith, which features the director's wife Laura Bayley as Joe, a child street-sweeper who dies of disease on the street in the arms of a policeman. The film, which went on release in March 1901, takes its name from a famous photograph posed by Oscar Rejlander after an episode in Charles Dickens' "Bleak House" and is the oldest known surviving film featuring a Dickens character. The film was discovered in 2012 by British Film Institute curator Bryony Dixon, after it was believed to have been lost since 1954. Until the discovery, the previous oldest known Dickens film was "Scrooge, or, Marley's Ghost", released in November 1901.
Joseph Kirkland Joseph Kirkland (January 7, 1830 - April 29, 1894) was an American novelist. Born in Geneva, New York, to educator William Kirkland and author Caroline Kirkland, he was a businessman in Chicago, then served in the Union Army during the Civil War, reaching the rank of major. He resigned his Union Army commission and moved to Tilton, Illinois, where he married Theodosia B. Wilkinson in 1863. In 1864 he founded the Midwestern literary periodical "Prairie Chicken". After the war he became a lawyer while also pursuing writing. He is best remembered as the author of two realistic novels of pioneer life in the Far West, "Zury: The Meanest Man in Spring County (1887)" and "The McVeys". Other works are "The Captain of Company K" and "The Story of Chicago". He was also the literary editor of the "Chicago Tribune". Kirkland died in Chicago at the age of 64.