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The Pilgrim Edition of the Letters of Charles Dickens: Volume 7: 1853-1855 (Hardcover)
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The Pilgrim Edition of the Letters of Charles Dickens: Volume 7: 1853-1855 (Hardcover)
Series: Dickens: Letters Pilgrim Edition
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This volume presents 1,251 letters, 447 previously unpublished, for
the years 1853 to 1855; it also includes, as a substantial Appendix
of Addenda, over 280 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 House 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 Lighthouse 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 exceptional venture into
political life with a speech for the Administrative Reform
Association. But his long and happy periods of residence in France
with his family encourage a more detached view, and he also
revisits Switzerland and Italy on a two-month tour with Collins and
the painter Augustus Egg. Friends and family still dominate his
personal life, but for a few weeks long-past emotions are revived
when he hears from his old love Maria Beadnell, now a middle-aged
Mrs Winter.
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