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according to Dickens bibliographer John Eckel, "nearly the entire first edition [of 1000 copies] was bought up by the libraries." These were lending libraries, which charged a fee for those who wished ...

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Early in the winter of 1841 it had been announced that Charles Dickens would ... having read all he had written, and sharing largely in the general enthusiasm for the author and his works, I ...

He died on Christmas Eve seven years before the book is set. He also believed ... for the five lines on which musical notes are written, so Dickens called his chapters ‘staves’ to link in ...

A copy of David Copperfield read by Captain Scott while trapped in an ice cave and the room where Dickens wrote Oliver Twist are on show at ...

Household Words was an unillustrated weekly magazine conducted and edited by Charles ... Dickens from late March 1850 through May 1859. It was issued weekly, but also monthly and as bound annual ...

From an 1851 “list of imitation book-backs” sent by Charles Dickens to a London bookbinder, who fabricated mock books with the fake titles. The New York Public Library re-created part… ...