![]() He had only an approximate idea of the story he would unfold, but he had decided it would include the episode of the anti-Catholic Gordon riots in London of 1780. Dickens started work upon the novel, which he had now decided to call Barnaby Rudge, at the beginning of 1839. It was to be published in monthly parts, like Pickwick. ![]() He eventually came to an agreement with his publisher, Richard Bentley, that the new novel should run in Bentley's Miscellany after the completion of Oliver Twist, which was then being serialised. All his life he had a habit of piling more duties and obligations upon his shoulders than any one man could reasonably bear. He first signed an agreement to write the novel, then provisionally entitled "Gabriel Varden, The Locksmith of London", in early May 1836 he was then only 24, but he was already writing The Pickwick Papers and was still engaged as a parliamentary journalist for the Morning Chronicle. He began considering it some five years before he actually started to write it, a period of gestation unequalled in his career. ![]() ![]() Barnaby Rudge was the occasion for more thought, and more second thoughts, than any other of Charles Dickens's novels. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. Archives
May 2023
Categories |