The Wall Street Journal has been Charles Dickens Central for the past couple of days -- they've got a nice review of Michael Slater's new biography here, and an excerpt from that biography here. And speaking of the Slater book, I've got it now -- thanks to the fine folks at Yale University Press for getting me my review copy so promptly -- and wanted to share this, from the first page:
While the Dickens family were still in Chatham, Forster tells us, the young boy wrote a tragedy called Misnar, the Sultan of India based on a favorite story of his.
It tickles me to think that, had Dickens lived a couple hundred years or so later, he might have started his career over at Fanfiction.net.
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