Dickens: Interviews and Recollections, Volume 2

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
‘Quite the Best Man I Ever Knew’....Pages 181-189
‘A Faultless Host’ (and a ‘Delightful Hostess’)....Pages 190-192
Office-staff Memories....Pages 192-197
‘My Master in Letters’....Pages 197-205
Another of ‘Mr Dickens’s Young Men’....Pages 205-210
A Rod of Iron in his Soul....Pages 211-215
Meeting Dickens: ‘A Foretaste of Paradise’....Pages 215-218
The Conductor of Household Words....Pages 218-223
‘This Most Charming of Men’....Pages 223-232
‘So Unlike Ordinary Great Men’....Pages 233-238
Just Like his Books....Pages 238-241
Loving Memories of a Very Faithful Follower....Pages 241-250
A Reading of the Carol....Pages 250-256
A Hero to his Readings Manager....Pages 257-268
Gad’s Hill: Views from the Servants’ Hall....Pages 269-272
The Squire of Gad’s Hill....Pages 272-281
Guests at Gad’s Hill....Pages 281-288
Conversations in 1860....Pages 289-291
His Knowledge of French Novelists....Pages 292-294
He ‘Always Made Me Feel Rather Afraid’....Pages 294-296
America, 1867–8....Pages 296-303
His Closest American Friends....Pages 304-323
An Informal Call upon Dickens in 1867....Pages 323-329
Dickens’s Characters, Talents and Limitations....Pages 330-331
‘Such a Man!’....Pages 331-337
Glimpses....Pages 337-344
Advice to a Beginner....Pages 344-349
At Lady Molesworth’s....Pages 349-351
One Week before his Death....Pages 352-353
A Few Days before his Death....Pages 354-358
Back Matter....Pages 359-368