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The romantic and the familiar: third-person narration in Chapter 11 of Bleak House.(Richard Hengist Horne)(Charles Dickens)(Author bibliography)

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From: Victorian Newsletter
Date: 20060922
Author:Paroissien, David

"In April 1852 Richard Hengist Horne sought Dickens's advice about a preface he had written. Its object, Horne explained, was to provide a context in which to read a collection of minor poems he hoped to publish. Dickens wrote back assuring Horne that he had considered his remarks "very carefully." The contents of the preface, he thought, were "sound" in principle. But he cautioned Home about its length. Reduce the preface of "its present amount" by five-sixths, Dickens counseled. The poems should speak for themselves. A man makes a weak case, he continued, "when he writes to ...

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