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Oxford: The Clarendon Press/ Oxford University Press, 1993. This volume presents 1271letters, 4388 previously unpublished, for the years 1853 to 1855; it also includes, as a substantial Appendix of Addenda, over 300 letters of the years 1831 to 1852 which came to light too late for earlier volumes. The period is one of activity remarkable even for Dickens. Besides the continuous editing of Household Words (where his Hard Times appears as a weekly serial), he is still at work on Bleak Honse until August 1853 and in 1855 is writing the early numbers of Little Dorrit. He manages and acts in children's plays in his little Tavistock House theatre on Twelfth Night, and later takes the leading part in Wilkie Collins's drama The bhthouse with great effect. Work with Miss Coutts and the troublesome inmates of her "Home" increases, and readings for charity have begun. The Crimean war and the government's mismanagement receive much comment in letters and satirical articles, and lead to one…
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The Letters of Charles Dickens: The Pilgrim Edition Volume 7 1853-1855 (Letters of Charles Dickens) Hardcover - 1993
by Charles Dickens
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- Title The Letters of Charles Dickens: The Pilgrim Edition Volume 7 1853-1855 (Letters of Charles Dickens)
- Author Charles Dickens
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- Language ENG
- Publisher Oxford University Press, USA, Oxford
- Date April 11, 1993
- ISBN 9780198126188
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