Victorian satirist for this work, he also made extensive contributions to Punch from 1841-1861: approximately 3,000 drawings of his appeared in He joined the staff ofīentley's Miscellany in 1840, and was the chief cartoonist for In which he had excelled in anatomical drawing. Leech had become an artist to support himselfĪfter the bankruptcy of his family forced him to abandon the medical studies Produce four hand coloured etchings and four wood engravings to illustrate Most widely enjoyed work, with hundreds of further reprints and adaptations.ĭickens was completely responsible for theĮntire production of the book, and he commissioned John Leech (1817-1864) to While obviously enormously popular from the outset, it has remained Originally published on 17 December 1843, theīook was rapturously reviewed and became an instant success, the first 6,000Ĭopies of its initial print-run being sold out by Christmas, with 2,000įurther copies from the second printing snapped up by the 6th of January. Nickleby, The Old Curiosity Shop, Barnaby Rudge andĪmerican Notes, Charles Dickens (1812-1870) was one of theīest-loved novelists of the time when he wrote this short novel, which wasĬompleted in a mere six weeks in tandem with the production of the eleventhĮpisode of the serially published Martin Chuzzlewit.

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