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On Dickens' death Forster devoted himself to writing his biography, producing the first of three volumes after two years. Holly Furneaux, PhD, teaches at the University of Leicester in the UK and has published several articles on the Victorian novel. It highlights Dickens' boundless energy, his passion for order and fascination with disorder, his organizational genius, his deep concern for the poor and outrage at indifference towards them, his susceptibility towards young women, his love of Christmas and fairy tales, and his hatred of tyranny.
Richly and precisely illustrated with many rare images, this masterly work on the complete Dickens, man and writer, becomes the indispensable guide and companion to one of the greatest novelists in the language.
The Life of Charles Dickens
John Forster's biography of Charles Dickens was the first written, and still is the basis for much of what we know about the author.
Forster's biography contains many examples of personal correspondence between him and Dickens, and offers unique insight into one of the most influential writers in Western Literature.
She recently co-edited, with Anne Schwan, Dickens and Sex, a collection of essays. The two men met in 1837, and Forster soon became Dickens' close friend and adviser. (In fact, Dickens modeled the character of John Podsnap in Our Mutual Friend on Forster.) Forster saw the manuscripts of nearly all of Dickens' novels before publication, and Dickens appointed him as his literary executor.
She is currently finishing her book Queer Dickens and is on the editorial board for the e-journal ?Nineteen: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century,” and is on the central committee for the British Association of Victorian Studies.
The Life of Charles Dickens
John Forster was a close friend of Charles Dickens and godfather to one of his daughters.
This new edition from Benediction Classics has brought together three volumes into one, unifying the structure and providing a new index, but retaining all the black and white illustrations and footnotes of the original.
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Most of the chapters deal with a specific period of Dickens' life, including his childhood, education, early career, writings, extensive travel, family life and public readings.He had previous experience of writing biographies and extensive access to much of Dickens' circle of family and friends, and his correspondence; thus he was ideally placed to thoroughly describe the great author's life. Drawing on a lifetime's study of this prodigiously brilliant figure, Michael Slater explores the personal and emotional life, the high-profile public activities, the relentless travel, the charitable works, the amateur theatricals and the astonishing productivity.
But the core focus is Dickens' career as a writer and professional author, covering not only his big novels but also his phenomenal output of other writing--letters, journalism, shorter fiction, plays, verses, essays, writings for children, travel books, speeches, and scripts for his public readings, and the relationships among them.
Slater's account, rooted in deep research but written with affection, clarity, and economy, illuminates the context of each of the great novels while locating the life of the author within the imagination that created them.
Charles Dickens
A magnificent new biography of the man who gave us David Copperfield, Oliver Twist, and Ebenezer Scrooge
This long-awaited biography, twenty years after the last major account, uncovers Dickens the man through the profession in which he excelled.