The British Academy/The Pilgrim Edition of the Letters of Charles Dickens: Volume 9: 1859-1861

By:

Charles Dickens

Format:

Hardback

Series:

Dickens: Letters Pilgrim Edition

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This ninth volume presents about 1,100 letters, many unpublished, from the years 1859 to 1861. It records Dickens's writing of two major novels, A Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations, both published weekly in All the Year Round: the letters give an unusual insight into the inspiration for both. It also shows him planning planning and writing a substantial amount of the three Christmas numbers of this period, 'A Haunted House', 'A Message from the Sea', and 'Tom Tiddler's Ground'. He expends great energy in establishing All the Year Round, to succeed Household Words, and during 1860 writes the first fourteen of his Uncommercial Traveller series. During these three years he gives two provincial tours of readings, in addition to readings in London. He spends a considerable part of his time at Gad's Hill, relying on his daughter Mamie and sister-in-law Georgina Hogarth to act as hostesses; the All the Year Round office becomes his London base. Ellen Ternan continues to act, though with diminishing success; in January 1859 Dickens almost certainly buys a long lease of 2 Houghton Place, Ampthill Square, for the Ternan family.

Release date NZ

July 3rd, 1997

Author

Charles Dickens

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Contributors

Associate editor Margaret Brown
Consultant editor Kathleen Tillotson
Edited by Graham Storey

Illustrations

frontispiece

Pages

636

Series

Dickens: Letters Pilgrim Edition

Dimensions

166x242x50

ISBN-13

9780198122937

Product ID

2540060

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