5/21/2023 0 Comments Dickens the pickwick papersAn illustrator named Robert Seymour had approached the publisher Chapman and Hall about doing a series of engravings of sporting life. It was meant to be what we refer to in the trade as deep captions. In his defense, Pickwick wasn’t meant to be a novel. The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, published in 1836-37, was Dickens’ first novel, though “picaresque romp” is a more accurate description of its structure. Do you recall what Anne is reading on that spring day at college when handsome, dreamy Gilbert asks her to be his wife? That book she’s treating herself to, because exams are over and she can relax and hang out at home with nothing to do? That’s right. Follow who has read the Anne of Green Gables series (bear with me, men) might remember the chapter midway through Anne of the Island when Gilbert Blythe first proposes to Anne.
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