Charles Dickens.
This long-awaited biography, twenty years after the last major account, uncovers Dickens the man through the profession in which he excelled. Drawing on a lifetime's study of this prodigiously brilliant figure, Michael Slater explores the personal and emotional life, the high-profile public act...
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2009
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Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Contents
- List of illustrations in the text
- List of plates
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Note on monetary values
- 1 Early years: from Portsmouth to Chatham, 1812�1822
- 2 Early years: London, 1822�1827
- 3 'The Copperfield days', 1828�1835
- 4 Break-through year, 1836
- 5 Editing Bentley's Magazine, 1836�1837
- 6 Periodicals into novels, 1837�1839
- 7 The Master Humphrey experiment, 1840�1841
- 8 America brought to book, 1842
- 9 'The turning-point of his career': England, Italy, England, 1842�1845
- 10 An interlude: 'daily nooses' and the noose itself, 184611 Dombey and other dealings, 1846�1848
- 12 From Dombey to Copperfield, 1848�1849
- 13 Interweaving and conducting: writing David Copperfield and beginning Household Words, 1849�1850
- 14 The year of the Guild, 1850�1851
- 15 Writing Bleak House, 1852�1853
- 16 Writing 'For These Times', 1853�1854
- 17 Writing Little Dorrit � among other things, 1855�1857
- 18 Drama and dénouement: performing The Frozen Deep and finishing Little Dorrit, 1857
- 19 Writing off a marriage, 1857�1858
- 20 Stories into scripts: the public readings, 185821 Serials, series and stories: writing for All the Year Round, 1859�1861
- 22 Christmas numbers, public readings, and 'uncommercial' travels, 1861�1863
- 23 Back to the 'big brushes': writing Our Mutual Friend, 1864�1865
- 24 Last Christmas numbers, 1865�1867
- 25 Writing, and reading, for America, 1867�1868
- 26 Disappearances and deaths, 1868�1870
- 27 Charles Dickens's explanations
- Abbreviations and select bibliography
- Notes
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
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- F
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