The British Academy/The Pilgrim Edition of the Letters of Charles Dickens: Volume 12: 1868-1870
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Product details:
- Edition number and title :Volume 12: 1868-1870
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 14 March 2002
- ISBN 9780199245963
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages842 pages
- Size 241x165x62 mm
- Weight 1415 g
- Language English
- Illustrations frontispiece 0
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Short description:
This concluding volume covers the final two and a half years of Dickens's life: his reading tours in America and around England, the writing of Edwin Drood (left unfinished on his sudden death), and his characteristic involvement in scores of different interests and in writing to literally hundreds of correspondents. Also included are a large gathering of letters and items of new information which came to light too late for earlier volumes, an index to the present volume, and a cumulative Index of Correspondents.
MoreLong description:
This final volume presents 1,151 letters, many previously unpublished or published only in part, for the years 1868 to Dickens's death from a stroke on 9 June 1870; also included is an Addenda of 235 letters belonging to earlier volumes, discovered since the publication of the first such collection in Volume 7, and a Cumulative Index of Correspondents for the entire edition.
The volume begins with the final four months of Dickens's American tour of 75 readings, which had been conspicuously successful throughout, despite the appalling weather and his sufferings from "American" catarrh. The tour culminated on 18 April 1868 when the American Press held a dinner in his honour in New York. In July he rented Windsor Lodge, Peckham for Ellen Ternan, where she remained until after his death; he was to give two more English reading tours before his collapse at Preston on 22 April 1869.
In early January 1869 he was elected President of the Birmingham and Midland Institute; and a dinner in his honour was given in St George's Hall, Liverpool. Between January and March 1870 he gave a series of Farewell readings in London, and on 31 March Edwin Drood, No. 1 was published, illustrated by Luke Fildes; it continued monthly until 31 August.
Of the friends who died during this period, much the closest were the painter Daniel Maclise, to whom Dickens paid especial tribute at the Royal Academy Banquet of 30 April 1870; Mark Lemon, who died only 18 days before Dickens himself, and with whom he had a brief reconciliation after their bitter quarrel in 1858; and Chauncy Hare Townshend, who left him £2,000 to publish, as his Literary Executor, Religious Opinions of the Late Chauncy Hare Townshend, which appeared in November 1870.
Storey's achievement is outstanding, and every reader of Dickens has cause to be grateful to him.'
Table of Contents:
Preface
Biographical Table
Abbreviations and Symbols
THE LETTERS, 1868-1870
Appendices
Addenda and Corrigenda Vols. I to XI (1820-1867)
The Public Readings
List of Readings sent to W. H. Wills, 25 February 1868
Walking Match, 29 February 1868
Draft Appeal for Cattermole Fund
Agreement between CD, Frederick Chapman and Henry Merivale Trollope
R. H. Horne to CD, 22 October 1869
Chapman & Hall to Fields, Osgood, 23 February 1870
Edward Bulwer Lytton re CD, 1869
CD's Will and Codicil
Alfred Dickens to Rusden
Addenda
Cumulative Index of Correspondents for all 12 Volumes
Index of Names and Places
