The British Academy/The Pilgrim Edition of the Letters of Charles Dickens: Volume 9: 1859-1861
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Product details:
- Edition number and title :Volume 9: 1859-1861
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 3 July 1997
- ISBN 9780198122937
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages636 pages
- Size 242x166x50 mm
- Weight 1055 g
- Language English
- Illustrations frontispiece 0
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Short description:
This ninth volume presents about 1,100 letters, many unpublished, from the years 1859 to 1861. It records the writing of two major novels, A Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations; the planning and writing of a substantial amount of the three Christmas numbers of this period, `A Haunted House', `A Message from the Sea', and `Tom Tiddler's Ground'; and the establishment of All the Year Round as a new journal to succeed Household Words. It also shows Dickens's delight with his new Kentish home, Gad's Hill.
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This ninth volume presents about 1,100 letters, many unpublished, from the years 1859 to 1861.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.
Meticulous documentation, the factual annotation and verification of persons, places and things, together with a superbly detailed index, set an editorial standard that make the Pilgrim Letters an outstanding example of a collective scholarly enterprise. A writer of Dickens's stature deserves nothing less. Happily in the case of the Pilgrim volumes the project and the subject enhance each other's glory.
Table of Contents:
List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgements
Biographical Table
Abbreviations and Symbols
The Letters 1859-1861
Appendixes
Corrigenda
Index of Correspondents
Index of Names and Places
