Letters of Charles Dickens: 1833-1870 (Cambridge Library Collection - Literary

Letters of Charles Dickens18331870\nAuthor(s): Charles Dickens, Georgina Hogarth, Mary Dickens\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781108040044, 978-1108040044\nSynopsis\nThis selection from the letters of Charles Dickens [tel] was edited (as it says on the title page) 'by his sister-in-law and his eldest daughter'. The former was Georgina Hogarth [tel], who stayed in Dickens' household and cared for the family when the author separated from his wife, her sister, in 1858; the latter was Mary [tel], known in the family as Mamie, his favourite child. They had published a three-volume edition in 1880, and a 'New Edition' in 1882; this reissue is of the single-volume third edition of 1893. The collection was seen as a 'supplement' to Forster's life of Dickens (also reissued in this series). Inevitably, it focuses on the positive and dynamic sides of Dickens' complex character, and gives a vivid portrait.