Thanks
My thanks go to David Grugeon for his good advice, to Richard Allen for his comments and close reading of an early draft, to Elizabeth James at the National Art Library within the V&A Museum, to Louisa Price at the Charles Dickens Museum, London, to East Sussex County Council public library service, and to Francesca Giovannetti and the team at Open Book Publishers for their encouragement and expertise.
Acknowledgements
The transcriptions of Dickens’s working notes are made by courtesy of the Board of Trustees of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London (2011). The image of the green cover design for Dombey and Son is reproduced by courtesy of Charles Dickens Museum, London (2016). All facsimiles of images from the Forster Collection in the National Art Library in the V&A Museum, London are made by courtesy of the Board of Trustees of the Victoria and Albert Museum (2016). Passages from Dombey and Son and the image of the frontispiece from ebook 821, Project Gutenberg, http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/851 (released 1 February 1997) and John Forster’s Life of Charles Dickens, 3 vols. in 2 (Boston: James R. Osgood & Co., 1875), ebook 25851, Project Gutenberg, http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/25851 (released 20 June 2008) are for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever; you may copy them, give them away or re-use them under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License online at http://www.gutenberg.org (2016).