The Best Authority
20/6/1857
The comic device of a distracted search for a frequently named but always elusive figure which Dickens uses in this entertaining diatribe against portentous gossips prefigures Twemlow's bewildered attempts to identify the Veneerings' 'oldest friend' in Our Mutual Friend.
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Grayrigg Grange
Chip: Why Is the Negro Black?
Based on John W. Draper, Human Physiology (1856).
Handel
Based on Victor Schoelcher, The Life of Handel (1857).
The Milky and Watery Way
Duelling in England
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