Wilkie Collins first published The Woman in White as a serial in All the Year Round between November 1859 and August 1860. Collins was praised by critics for the care he took with both plotting and character development. When the… Read More ›
Victorian serial novels
Analysis of Charles Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities
Among the great Charles Dickens’s final novels, A Tale of Two Cities well represents his maturity as a novelist. Like his previous works, this novel investigates man’s capacity for inhumanity. However, its emphasis on the cause for the abuses men… Read More ›
The Cornhill Magazine
In 1860, founder and publisher George Smith hired William Makepeace Thackeray as the first editor to write and critique material for The Cornhill Magazine. Eight other men worked as editors until the last issue appeared in 1900. Thackeray devoted issues… Read More ›
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