“A thread of War in the peaceful skein”: Friendship and Tensions in “The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices” by Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins (1857)

When Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins met in 1851, Dickens was already established as the most popular English novelist, whereas Collins was little more than an aspiring writer. Six years later, in 1857, Collins had written his first successful novels: Basil (1852), Hide and Seek (1854) and The D...

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Главный автор: Hervouet-Farrar, Isabelle
Формат: Article ou chapitre numérique
Язык:Anglais
Опубликовано: Viatica 2023
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Итог:When Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins met in 1851, Dickens was already established as the most popular English novelist, whereas Collins was little more than an aspiring writer. Six years later, in 1857, Collins had written his first successful novels: Basil (1852), Hide and Seek (1854) and The Dead Secret (1856); he was a staff-member of Household Words, the magazine “conducted by Charles Dickens”, and as such a professional writer whose name Dickens had even agreed would appear in the ma...