Acknowledgements viIntroduction: A Life in Brief 11 Young Dickens 182 Dickens the Reporter 343 Dickens's Angels 494 Dickens and Theatre 675 Dickens Abroad 886 Boz to Man: Dickens, Serialisation and 'The Turning Point' 1057 Dickens and Charity 1238 Dickens and Money 1419 Dickens's Literary Network 15810 Dickens and Separation 18011 Dickens on Tour 20112 The End of Dickens 221Afterword, Afterlife: Dickens's Posthumous Reputation 241Index 260
PETE ORFORD is the Course Director of the MA in Charles Dickens Studies run by the University of Buckingham and the Charles Dickens Museum in London. He is the author of The Mystery of Edwin Drood: Charles Dickens' Unfinished Novel & Our Endless Attempts to End It, and the editor of Pictures from Italy for the Oxford Dickens. He has contributed several articles and chapters to significant works including The Oxford Handbook of Charles Dickens and The Blackwell Companion to Charles Dickens.