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Messages in bottles and collins's seafaring man.(Critical Essay)

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From: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900
Date: 20010922
Author:Trodd, Anthea

In November 1860 Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins visited Devon and Cornwall together to gather ideas for the nautical story, A Message from the Sea, the 1860 Christmas number for All The Year Round, which would prove to be their penultimate collaboration. (1) They "arranged and parcelled out" the sections for the story before they returned, and wrote it in London during the next fortnight. (2) The fourth chapter, "The Seafaring Man," was Collins's prime responsibility, and Dickens responded with irritation to Collins's original beginning for this section, writing to Georgina ...

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