The Letters of Charles Dickens: The Pilgrim Edition, Volume 1850-1852

This volume presents 1,592 letters, 668 of them previously unpublished, for the years 1850 to 1852. These years saw the completion of the serialization of "David Copperfield", the start on "Bleak House" and the establishment of the weekly "Household Words".
This volume presents 1,592 letters, 668 of them previously unpublished, for the years 1850 to 1852. This was a time of great activity for Dickens, who completed the serial publication of David Copperfield, began work on Bleak House, successfully established the weekly Household Words (in which his own serial A Child's History of England appeared), and wrote about 100 articles and stories for the journal, including many uncollected pieces. In April 1851 he and Sir
Edward Bulwer Lytton founded the Guild of Literature and Art, a scheme to help writers and artists. He also suffered a number of personal blows: the deaths of his father, his baby daughter Dora, and two of his close friends, Richard Watson and Alfred D'Orsay; there was also anxiety over the illness
of his wife Catherine.