ALSO first published in the US: Middlemarch - with Book 1 coming out before she was even done with Book 4. That’s some confidence. She was flying and she knew it.
If you want to know how much Dickens hated America, read Martin Chuzzlewit, which portrays us as a nation of bigoted, knuckle dragging yokels and petty grifters. Which is not entirely off the mark.
ALSO first published in the US: Middlemarch - with Book 1 coming out before she was even done with Book 4. That’s some confidence. She was flying and she knew it.
Unthinkable
If you want to know how much Dickens hated America, read Martin Chuzzlewit, which portrays us as a nation of bigoted, knuckle dragging yokels and petty grifters. Which is not entirely off the mark.
Haha, oh man now I HAVE to read that —