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To my typist, Barbara Rae, for help in theįinal stages of preparing the manuscript for the publisher. Grateful to my research assistant, Debbie Esson, and Burgis the ClarendonĮdition of Martin Chuzzlewit (1982) (ed.) M.Ĭardwell Charles Dickens: The Public Readings Sucksmith the Clarendon edition of DavidĬopperfield (1981) (ed.) N. Horsman the Clarendon edition of Little Dorrit (1979) (ed.) H. Cardwell the Clarendon edition of Dombey and Son (1974) (ed.) A. Tillotson the ClarendonĮdition of The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1972) Fielding the Pilgrim edition of The Letters Permission of the Oxford University Press: The Speeches of Charles Dickens (1960) (ed.) K.J. Quotations from the following volumes are made with I am pleased to acknowledge this generous support.Īre reproduced with permission from the Aberdeen University Library, theīodleian Library, the British Library, theĭickens House Museum, and the Guildhall Library. With the aid of a grant from the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Undertaken with financial assistance from the University of Aberdeen Fund for Theatre Museum, the Tyne and Wear County Council Museums, the Victoria andĪlbert Museum, and Warwick Central Library. Librarianship, Shrewsbury Public Library, the Society for Theatre Research, the The Guildhall Library, the Guildhall Record Office, Madame Tussaud's, MargateĬentral Library, the Mary Evans Picture Gallery, the Museum of London, PrestonĬentral Library, Robert Gordon's Institute of Technology Library and School of Public Library, the Dickens House Museum, University Library, Aylesbury Central Library, Banbury Public Library,īirmingham Public Library, the Bodleian Library, the British Library,
Librarians, archivists and staff of the following institutions: Aberdeen Presented at the University of Kent, the University of Aberdeen, WroxtonĬollege of Fairleigh Dickinson University, the University of Edinburgh, and theĪssistance with the research on which the book is based I wish to thank the Have had opportunities to test some of the ideas of the book in papers which I Say the faults which remain are, of course, my own. TheirĬonstructive criticism has been challenging and helpful in more ways than I can Robin Gilmour and Cohn Milton, both of whom read early drafts of Chapters 4 andĥ, and to Bob Lawson-Peebles, who read drafts of Chapters 1, 2, 3 and 6. Go to colleagues and students at the University of Aberdeen, especially to Malcolm, Andrew Sanders, Michael Slater, George Speaight and Kathleen Grateful to Joe Ging, Elizabeth Grice, Liz MacLachlan, Robin MacLachlan, David Their encouragement, patience, faith and practical advice I am particularly Philip Collins's books, articles andĮditions have shown me how deeply Dickens's concerns were rooted in their time,Īnd Professor Collins's scholarship has provided a model worthy of emulation.įriends and colleagues have provided assistance of a more personal kind. Ghent's essay 'The Dickens world: a view from Todgers" first taught me howĭickens could be both funny and profound. Years into the present book, and the debts of gratitude which I have incurred My desire to account for this interest has evolved over many To read A Christmas Carol aloud each year by theįamily fireside, I have been fascinated by Dickens as the greatest of allĮntertainers. Typeset in 10 on 11 point Bembo and printedįrom early childhood, when my father used Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Published by the Academic Division of Unwin Hyman Ltdġ5/17 Broadwick Street, London W1V 3FP, UKīritish Library Cataloguing in Publication Data