G., Charles Dickens by Pen and Pencil(London: Frank T. Sabin/ John F. Dexter, 1890).MacKay, Carol Hanbery, ‘The Melodramatic Impulse in Nicholas Nickleby’, Dickens Quarterly, vol. 5, no. 3 (September 1988),

In addition, Dickens removed a number of intensifying adjectives (‘this heartless scheme’ (1839), ‘this scheme’ (1848, 1867); ‘insolence and the coarsest pride’ (1839), ‘insolence and pride’ (1848, 1867))

Mrs Watson’ in F. G. Kitton’s Charles Dickens by Pen and Pencil(London: Frank T. Sabin/John F. Dexter, 1890), p. 145.11.For further discussion of Nicholas, see Beth F. Herst, The Dickens Hero(London:

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EDITOR’S NOTETHE fate of Edwin Drood, the last of Charles Dickens’ creations, has exercised the minds of not a few literary men of eminence. The best of them could but guess; and which has gone nearest

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