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| Acknowledgments | ||
| Introduction | ||
| Pt. 1 | "A Low, Cheap Form of Publication": Charles Dickens, the Coming of Pickwick, and Murder by the Book | 1 |
| Pt. 2 | "It Would Never Suit the Circulating Libraries": Jane Eyre, Vanity Fair, and the Three-Volume Straitjacket | 41 |
| Pt. 3 | "What Shall I Be Without My Father?": Women Novelists in the London of Dickens and Thackeray, the Coming of Real Money, and the Novel Becomes Respectable | 75 |
| Pt. 4 | "Do Let Me Abuse Mr Newby": Literary Executors, Gossip Columnists, and the Emergence of the Novelist as Celebrity | 111 |
| Pt. 5 | "Terror to the End": The Sensation Novel, Dickens "Dreadfully Shattered," and Anthony Trollope Gets a Traveling Bag and an Audience | 157 |
| Pt. 6 | "We Are a Novel-Reading Country": Middlemarch and Mr. Mudie's Library, the Novel Apparently Triumphant, but Henry James Fails, Ominously, to Write a Happy Ending | 187 |
| Bibliography | 251 | |
| Index | 267 | |
| Photography Credits | 281 |
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Steve Ramsden
reviewed Dickens' fur coat and Charlotte's unanswered letters on April 01, 2014
Dickens' fur coat and Charlotte's unanswered letters
Pool's earlier book, "What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew" is an indispensable reference for anyone who has read or who looks forward to reading Edwardian or Victorian novels. I was expecting an equally instructive and interesting experience with this book.
But-- disappointed. The subtitle says it all, in that the subtitle is quite inaccurate. This book may touch on some of the "Rows and Romances of England's Great Victorian Novelists" but its proper subtitle ought to be "A Brief History of the Popularity and Publication of the Victorian Novel." Interesting in its way, but hardly the stuff of juicy revelations.
(And why did he omit the fact that Mary Ann Evans' new husband attempted suicide on their honeymoon? If YOU were going to write about Romances and Rows, you'd include that little event, wouldn't you?)
If you really want to investigate ROWS and ROMANCES among the Victorian literati, I highly recommend "Parallel Lives" by Phyllis Rose. THAT is juicy! (You may never see "A Christmas Carol" the same way after you've read its chapters on Charles Dickens.)
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Add Dickens' fur coat and Charlotte's unanswered letters, In his bestselling What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew, Daniel Pool brilliantly unlocked the mysteries of the English novel. Now, in his long-awaited Dickens' Fur Coat and Charlotte's Unanswered Letters, Pool turns his keen eye to England's grea, Dickens' fur coat and Charlotte's unanswered letters to your collection on WonderClub |
