- Hardcover: 272 pages
- Publisher: Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd (19 Sep 2002)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0715628240
- ISBN-13: 978-0715628249
- Product Dimensions: 24.5 x 16 x 3.1 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 970,993 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"Douglas Jerrold . . . is a greatly underestimated literary figure, one to whom Michael Slater's richly detailed biography does ample justice. . . . Details about Jerrold's life, and many more, are put to the reader in a rich and engaging way. . . . For the literary and journalistic life of Douglas Jerrold provides, in miniature, a cultural history of popular and radical culture in the first half of the nineteenth century. As such, Michael Slater's study is essential reading for any student of the period." -- Victorian Studies
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Douglas Jerrold was the quintessential Victorian. Starting life as a seaman, he, like Dickens, one of his closest friends, turned himself into a famous writer and journalist, a friend feared for his sharp pen in literary circles. A prolific writer of articles and novels, he wrote many successful plays which made his rising popular fame equal to Dickens' celebrity as a novelist. When Jerrold died at the early age of 54, Dickens spoke the eulogy at his funeral, which was attended by a crowd that would only be surpassed by the attendance at Dickens' funeral. This book provides his biography.
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