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The Letters of Charles Dickens: The Pilgrim Edition Volume 8 1856-1858 (Letters of Charles Dickens) Hardcover - 1995 - 1st Edition
by Dickens, Charles
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- Title The Letters of Charles Dickens: The Pilgrim Edition Volume 8 1856-1858 (Letters of Charles Dickens)
- Author Dickens, Charles
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- Publisher Oxford University Press, USA, Oxford
- Date November 30, 1995
- ISBN 9780198126621
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Oxford: The Clarendon Press/ Oxford University Press, 1995. This eighth volume presents about ,1500 letters, many of them unpublished, from the years 1856 to 1858. This period includes several major changes in Dickens's public and private life, notably in 1858 when he separates from his wife and starts a new career of paid readings from his works But throughout 856 and part of 1857, his main preoccupation is the writing of his monthly serial Little Dorrit; for much of 1856 he continues to reside happily in France with his family, both in Boulogne and Paris, giving racy accounts of its theatres and his meetings with writers and artists. At his own amateur theatricals in 1857, his great success in Wilkie Collins's The Frozen Deep has lasting consequences; at the close of his work for the Douglas Jerrold Fund, the play is repeated with professional actresses, including three members ofthe Ternan family. Later rumours of his relations with a young actress (Ellen Ternan) provoke him to an…
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