| Evidence: | 'I should have written to you to-day to thank you for your flattering and kind-hearted mention of myself in the new Preface to Rookwood; if the weather had been finer I intended riding out to tell you how warmly I felt it, and how much sincere delight your friendship affords me.' |
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| Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
| Date: | 30 Oct 1837 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: London specific address: 48 Doughty Street |
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| Reader: | Charles Dickens |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | 7 Feb 1812 |
| Socio-economic group: | Clerk / tradesman / artisan / smallholder |
| Occupation: | Journalist and writer |
| Religion: | Church of England |
| Country of origin: | England |
| Country of experience: | England |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
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| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | William Harrison Ainsworth |
| Title: | Rookwood |
| Genre: | Fiction |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | 18/10/1837, Bentley?s Standard Novels edn. |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 12113 | |
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| Author: | Charles Dickens | |
| Editor: | Madeline House | |
| Title: | The Letters of Charles Dickens: Volume One: 1820-1839 | |
| Place of Publication: | Oxford | |
| Date of Publication: | 1965 | |
| Vol: | 1 | |
| Page: | 325 | |
| Additional comments: | Additional editor: Graham Storey. Published by Clarendon Press as the Pilgrim edition. |
| Citation: | Charles Dickens, Madeline House (ed.), The Letters of Charles Dickens: Volume One: 1820-1839 (Oxford, 1965), 1, p. 325, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=12113, accessed: 18 April 2024 | |
| Note 9 explains that the new Preface read: ?Mr. Dickens, with his wonderful knowledge of London life and character, has done more for this metropolis, in the Pickwick Papers, and in Oliver Twist, than Paul de Knock, in all his works, has one for Paris.? This appeared as a footnote in the preface to the new edition dated 18/10/1837, in Bentley?s Standard Novels edn. |
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