Gathers correspondence between the great nineteenth-century British novelist and his family, friends, and fellow authors, and includes public letters on social issues
The nearest we can get to a Dickens autobiography, these letters give us unique insights into his life, and are essential reading for Dickens fans everywhere.
This is the first selection to be made from the magisterial twelve-volume British Academy Pilgrim Edition of his letters.
Selected Letters
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Throughout his writing career Charles Dickens was a hugely prolific journalist. This volume of his later work is selected from pieces that he wrote after he founded the journal Household Words in 1850 up until his death in 1870.
There is, however, a current and growing interest in her life and work. This is a new three volume collection of the correspondence of Caroline Norton.
So one contemporary, Punch editor Shirley Brooks, headed his diary for June 10, the day after Dickens's death. With its stark message and heavily inked mourning border, it was the most dramatic of Brooks's 1870 diary entries.
Charles Dickens Magician: Conjuring in Life, Letters and Literature
'This invigorating collection ... is ... a monument to scholarship for which we should be grateful.' D. H. Lawrence Review
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