A01=P.D. Edwards
Author_P.D. Edwards
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Bohemian writers
British press history
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David Copperfield
dickens's
Dickens's Death
Dickens's Young Men
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Edward Dicey
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garrick
Guilford Street
Household Words
illustrated
Illustrated London News
Illustrated Times
John Strange Winter
La Peau De Chagrin
Lady Audley's Secret
literary networks
london
Mary Braddon
National Biography
news
nineteenth-century authors
Panton Street
Personal Journalist
Pretty Horse Breaker
print culture studies
Sala's Novels
Shirley Brooks
Sir Charles Dilke
Tame Cats
temple
Temple Bar
Thackeray's Death
Tinsley's Magazine
Victorian journalism research
Victorian periodicals
yates
Young Man
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9781859280430
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 11 Dec 1997
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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In Dickens's lifetime, and for a generation or so after, Edmund Hodgson Yates and George Augustus Sala were the best known and most successful of his "young men" - the budding writers who acknowledged him as their guide and mentor and whose literary careers the publicity and privately fostered. The book considers their personal and literary relationships with Dickens, with each other, and with other writers of the period, Bohemian and "respectable", including Yates's arch-enemy, his post-office colleague Anthony Trollope. But it also demonstrates that their life and writings - their fiction, private letters and occasional essays in verse and drama, as well as their already recognised contributions to the development of the "new journalism" - are interesting and historically illuminating in their own right, not merely pale reflections of the glory of greater writers. Extensive use is made of previously unpublished material.
P.D. Edwards
