Unequal Partners: Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, and Victorian Authorship.(Book Review)

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Unequal Partners: Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, and Victorian Authorship. By Lillian Najder. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2002. xiv + 221 pages.

This is a work of exemplary scholarship which offers an admirably full account of the professional working relationship between Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins as collaborative writers, to which all future students of either author will want to return over and again, as an indispensible framework for thinking about this subject. At the same time, I believe that it rides the thesis it develops about the materials so ...

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