This volume presents 1,592 letters, 668 of them previously unpublished, for the years 1850 to 1852. This was a time of great activity for Dickens, who completed

This study explores the ways in which Dickens’s published work and his thousands of letters intersect, to shape and promote particular myths of the reading ex

Sally Ledger offers substantial readings of the influences of radical writers on works from Pickwick to Little Dorrit.

'I see her now - cousin Phillis. The westering sun shone full upon her, and made a slanting stream of light into the room within.' Elizabeth Gaskell has long be

"This cultural sovereignty, argues Gail Turley Houston, in the hands of a female monarch troubled writers, especially men, who worked during a reign that viewed