Her great expectations fell on hard times
07 March 2016 - 02:31
When your father's close friend is one of the best writers in English literature and the editor of his own journal, it would not be unreasonable to request a small leg-up for one's own fledgling career.Not if that friend is Charles Dickens. An 1860 letter from the author, unpublished until now, reveals one such would-be author was given short shrift after asking for advice, with Dickens berating her for having the temerity to bother him.
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